Quotes About Connection

People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.

Does everybody always have to be on the prowl for love?

Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person's soul?

The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.

Romance always involved a bit of deceit.

When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.

Absolutely, love matters," she reiterated. "We forget that at our own risk.

That's the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can't live that way. The world's too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them.

Love was like death that way.

What bound people together was so fragile.

Shirtless, they'd stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

For men to love each other truly, they must have shed tears together.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

If you'll be my bodyguardI can be your long lost pal,I can call you Bettyand, Betty, when you call meYou can call me Al.

Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

in order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself.

You can be with somebody and still feel alone.

The more opportunity I have to treat people the way I wished I myself had been treated, the better I feel.

you get nothing with a fist that you can't get in multitudes with your hand open.