Quotes About Connection

And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose.

I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me to and be understood.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them.

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you, Grandma.

Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York was in heavy boots.

None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I?

They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.

Could we kiss for a little bit? ... Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with kips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

The Gypsy girl carved love letters into trees, filling the forest with notes for him.

He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..

Do you know that I am the Gypsy girl and you are Safran, and that I am Kolker and you are Brod, and that I am your grandmother and you are Grandfather, and that I am Alex and you are you, and that I am you and you are me? Do you not comprehend that we can bring each other safety and peace? When we were under the stars in Trachimbrod, did you not feel it then? Do not present not-truths to me. Not to me.

Lo que olvidamos de los animales es lo que empezamos a olvidar de nosotros mismos.

that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there

She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.

At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me...

Hiçbir ÅŸeyi özlediÄŸin bir ÅŸeyden daha fazla sevemezsin.

Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.

They had never seen one another from afar. They had never known the deepest intimacy, that closeness attainable only with distance

I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone, I sit on the side with a coffee and write in my daybook

And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

Alex?" I told him yes. "You're my translator, right?" I asked him to be slow, because I could not understand him. In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

how can you say I love you to someone you love?

Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.