Quotes About Connection

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

God is not to be prayed to. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that persons resolve.

There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned. "A thing like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it. "You are living," Natividad said. "I like you. I wish I could have met your sister.

I can't unfind you," he said.

Let go of me." It smoothed its tentacles again. "Be grateful, Joe. I'm not going to let go of you.

She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.

Death Is a great Change— Is life's greatest Change. We honor our beloved dead. As we mix their essence with the earth, We remember them, And within us, They live.

What is it?" she asked. "Flesh. More like mine than like yours. Different from mine, too, though. It's … the ship." "You're kidding. Your ship is alive?

Curt Loehr, the Oankali said, needed people to look after. People stabilized him, gave him purpose. Without them, he might have been a criminal—or dead.

Sometimes you have to remember a feeling you haven't had for a long time and bring it back so you can transmit it to someone else or use a feeling you have about one thing to help someone understand something else.

Then show me what you are. Give me the trust you ask me to give you.

No one is who we think they are," I said. "That's what we get for not being telepathic.

Akin rested his chin on Iriarte's shoulder and savored the strange pale scents—all pale now.

Darkness Gives shape to the light As light Shapes the darkness. Death Gives shape to life As life Shapes death. The universe And God Share this wholeness, Each Defining the other. God Gives shape to the universe As the universe Shapes God.

In spite of your loss and pain, you aren't alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.

This means God is not to be prayed to. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that persons resolve. If they're used that way, they can help us in our only real relationship with God.

Then … Rufus's fear of death calls me to him, and my own fear of death sends me home.

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

We will shape God And God will shape us

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.

And of course he was flattered that she wanted him. He was human, and no doubt tired of being alone.

L'avevo sentito morire e non ero morta. Avevo sentito il suo dolore come se fosse un essere umano, la sua vita divampare e spegnersi, eppure ero ancora viva.