Quotes About Connection

Tempi reached out and gripped my shoulder firmly. Then he looked up, met my eye, and held it for a brief moment. Such a rarity for him. He gave a small, quiet smile. "Proud," he said.

sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

The strings felt strange against my fingers, like reunited friends who have forgotten what they have in common.

Eres muy bueno. Creo que prefiero que me llames Denna. Cuando tú lo dices suena diferente. Dulce.

She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.

can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

After a moment he reached out and brushed the unruly red hair back from his face, like a mother would with a sleeping child. Then he began to sing softly, the tune lilting and strange, almost a lullaby:

She caught a piece of my smile and shone it back at me.

I couldn't stand being near music and not be a part of it. It was like watching the woman you love bedding down with another man. No. Not really. It was like. . .

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Cuando quieres algo, tienes que asegurarte de que eso te quiere a ti, porque si no, pasarás muchos apuros persiguiéndolo.

Eres mi penique reluciente en la cuneta. Vales más que la sal o que la luna de una larga noche de caminata. Eres un vino dulce en mi boca, una canción en mi garganta, y la risa en mi corazón.

Cada mujer es como un instrumento, y espera que la entiendan, la amen y la toquen con delicadeza, para por fin hacer sonar su verdadera música.

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

Las palabras tienen que encontrar la mente de un hombre si pretenden llegar a su corazón.

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is like a companion and a lover.

Me caen bien -dijo Denna-. Wilem es como una piedra bajo el agua. Simmon es como un chiquillo chapoteando en un arroyo.

La miré con intención de decir algo ingenioso, alguna de todas aquellas frases que había pensado la noche anterior. Pero cuando vi sus ojos, las palabras me abandonaron. Me quedé maravillado, no sé cuánto rato. Durante un largo momento fui completamente suyo...

We shared an apple, passing it back and forth between bites, which is close to kissing, if you've never kissed before.

Miró hacia arriba y vio un millar de estrellas centelleando en el oscuro terciopelo de una noche sin luna. Las conocía todas, sus historias y sus nombres. Las conocía bien y le eran tan familiares como, por ejemplo, sus propias manos.

And she was sorry. She knew better. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

Las cartas por sí solas no pueden conquistar el amor de una mujer.

I have not forgotten that she is what I am moving toward. If I seem to be caught in a slow circling of the subject, it is only appropriate, as she and I have always moved toward each other in slow circles.

nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres.