Quotes About Connection

The ache of it. The ache of missing Gudmmund is so great he can barely stand it. Of missing how safe being with him felt, how easy it was, how funny and relaxed. Of missing the physical stuff, of course, but more than that, the intimacy, the closeness. Of missing just being held like that, cared for.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page.

Death is suddenly objectionable to you when the dead has a name you know?

But what good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you mean?

And for a second, for a minute, forever, every nerve in my body is right there, right at the point where we're touching. And boom, I think. That's it.

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

We would have wanted you to like us. We realise now that we probably would have failed.

And at last he spoke the final and total truth. [...] "I don't want you to go", he said again. And that was all he needed to say. He leaned forward onto her bed and put his arm around her. Holding her. He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12.07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on. Butnot this moment, the monster whispered, still close. Not just yet. Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does.

Nunca pierdas la oportunidad de besar a alguien. No hay cosa de la que uno se arrepienta más

I know everything about you. What you hide. What you dream.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?' Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.

speakerphone on the table, and another twenty lawyers from across the country had dialed in.

Marietta believed that Sophie Sackler had been the last thing that held the three of them together. "It seemed to me that her strong, matriarchal force had maintained the vision of family togetherness," she wrote. "When she was gone,

According to Sonnenreich, Arthur was the controlling force behind the agency: "Frohlich's firm, basically, was Arthur's." But the bond between the two ran deeper still. It wasn't just Arthur who was close with Bill Frohlich: Mortimer and Raymond Sackler also became friends and confidants of the German adman.

Arthur had been, at best, an indifferent father. When Denise, his daughter with Marietta, was in high school, she had to "make an appointment" with his secretary if she wanted to speak to him,

I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enought to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.