Quotes About Connection

And there it was. She'd said it and now I could say it back, the most banal and brilliant exchange of dialogue, which we'd repeat, over and over, for just as long as we meant it.

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. (Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.)

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

Maybe they're in love." "And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometines it is.

she might even enjoy it. The few times that she'd gone to bed with boys she had always ended up giggling or weeping and it might be nice to try for something in between. She wondered if

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance. That

I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.

Can I say something? Before we go back to the party?' 'Go on.' 'I'm a little drunk.' 'Me too. That's okay.' 'Just … I missed you, you know.' 'I missed you too.' 'But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there—' 'Same here.' 'And I feel a little guilty, sort of running away like that.

The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page.

Hablaron muy poco de sus sentimientos mutuos, pues las frases bonitas y las expresiones cálidas eran acaso innecesarias entre amigos tan íntimos.» Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido

When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

For my sister, life was one long group hug

This is me.'" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. 'Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose if you phone first.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.

When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day, in some way or another." - Emma

No reason, Em,' said Dex. 'I just really, really want to tip you' and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.