Quotes About Connection

A horse," he once said, "is the symbol of the rider's soul.

But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.

If men were from Mars and women from Venus, I was from an unknown star in neither orbit. My sensitivity, as finely honed a skill as I possessed, still lacked a working edge with my Andrea.

Learning how to do SM is like learning how to have sex all over again.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

She's really not my kind of girl — most of them have tattoos or nose rings — but there's something about her smile. She smiles like she's in love with whoever she's looking at. She smiled at me a few months ago. I've been trying to get her to do it again ever since.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Involved, period.

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

His eyes tightened a little at the corners. "I told you a

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you?do you have the feeling that?that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just?dying? HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?

Boone already felt in his bones that if he ever got his hands on Maddie, once would never be enough.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.