Quotes About Connection

But what you are saying now, the way you're speaking to me - there's a level to this that I never saw when you were in the group. A level of honesty, vulnerability. If you could have opened yourself up like this even once… It's kind of amazing to see it now.

Jonathan Franzen

It was love that worked miracles; no force on earth was more powerful.

But strict limits to intimacy are the straight man's burden.

Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.

When have you ever done anything but intercede for me? Everything I am I owe to you. Mother.

simply by trying to speak honestly, surrendering to emotion, supporting other people in their honesty and emotion, she experienced her first glimmerings of spirituality.

Hour after hour, my father lay unmoving and worked his way toward death; but when he yawned, the yawn was his. And his body, wasted though it was, was likewise still radiantly his.

She was a little bit in love with Tom, too, because she could afford to be, because she wasn't physically attracted to him - he was both older and 'safe'.

Whatever chemistry she and Jason had had was still there, if only in the form of regret about never really having acted on it.

She was certainly hungry to sleep with someone; it was practically forever since she'd done it. But she liked Jason a little too much to think it was a good idea to sleep with him. What if she started liking him even more? Relationship pain and relationship horror seemed probable.

It was exceedingly improbable that he would ever see the men again, but, as my father said, you never knew. Always worth approaching every man you met as if he might become your best friend in the world.

What would it be like to live with a person capable of joy?

Joey described to her the sleek warm neatness of her turds as they slid from her anus and fell into his open mouth, where, since they were only words, they tasted like excellent dark chocolate.

She was right for him, he was right for her, but they couldn't find a way to be together.

el amor verdadero altera el mundo del tecnoconsumismo, y a éste no le queda más remedio que alterar, a su vez, el amor.

When he happened to look at Marion directly, it was often to ask, "Where's your sister?

young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on

Jonathan Franzen

In the instant before it was over and pure nothing, he heard all the human voices in the world.

To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets.

They had the beauty of the second glance, the beauty that only revealed itself with intimacy.

Cuando te quedas en tu habitación y te encolerizas o adoptas una actitud de desdén o te encoges de hombros, como hice muchos años, el mundo y sus problemas te intimidan de manera extraordinaria. Pero cuando sales y estableces una relación real con personas reales, o incluso con animales reales, existe el peligro muy real de acabar queriendo a alguno de ellos.

They rode an elevator in silence. Too-precipitous intimacy had left in its wake a kind of dirty awkwardness.