Quotes About Connection

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.

I want to fly from a window and pour through the air like a wind of love to raise his hair and slide into the palms of his hands.

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.

A heartfire, Clementine my darlin', is when you want someone, when you need her so damn bad, not only in your bed but in your life, that you're willin' to burn--".

What I've learned of love, I've learned from you. I don't believe in anything, but I believe in you.

Shay," she said. "Shay McKenna," as if trying out his name, saying it for the first time. "Did you ever love me, even a little?" Love you?" He turned his head and brushed his lips across her fingers. "I'm loving you now, mo chridh. After I'm dead, a thousand years from now, whatever's left of me, be it a soul or just a handful of dust, that will be loving you.

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

chose to love my friends. I chose to love my wife. I think I even chose to love my parents as I got older. But I had no say in loving my children. The love for my children is beyond my control. It's animal. It's like hunger. It's more than hunger—there have been times I could control my hunger (although I can't remember any off the top of my head). I love my children like I need to breathe.

Thérése y Jérémy cultivan, desde siempre, ese arte del quid pro quo que es la sal de sus relaciones. De acuerdo en todo, no se entienden en nada. Es su modo de soportar la condena perpetua de la fraternidad

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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. George Eliot

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That's who we teach!

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

In that moment, she knew that whether or not it was too soon, she loved him. Now and forever.

In the instant that it took her to realize what the book was, she knew he was doing what she once had—preparing for the day by spending time with God. She wondered what the words he was singing meant. Were they in Gaelic or Cherokee? It really didn't matter. What mattered was that they were words of praise and probably thankfulness. What mattered was that he was the kind of man who spent time with his Creator.

People are people, Meg, no matter what their skin color is or how much money they have or what country they come from. We all breathe and feel joy and pain. We all hate and love and laugh and cry and bleed. And no matter how different we may be on the outside, God loves us all and never leaves us.

and I grew up with no one. Except my grandmother. And even she died.

The girlfriend was called Gwen