Quotes About Connection

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

Then the air the sparrow breathed we could breathe tool

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we'll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)

I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

This silk tassel tree has grown up from his spine, the indigenous plants have flourished and died here around his ankles, the fox, sparrows and meadowlarks have nested in his hair, the rains and wind and sun have beaten down across the rigid expanse of his shoulders, and Luca has never moved. We are rocks.

Many of them look Luca and Mami right in the eye, and say, "God bless you," and they smile. Luca would like to smile back, but he feels peculiar, too. He is unaccustomed to pity.

melts into him like a pat of butter on a pan.

Lydia thanks the girls, and her spoken gratitude feels entirely insufficient, because what she really needs to say is that the food, yes, but also their kindness, their humanity, their very existence, has nourished some withered, essential part of herself.

Paola is a stranger, but her hands on Lydia's back are the hands of God. They are Sebastián's and Yemi's and Yénifer's. They are her mother's hands.

It was one of the reasons she'd fallen in love with him; he didn't press her on personal matters, he was seldom jealous, and he had no interest in annexing or directing her friendships with other men.

He's like a small, human bellows, and she a fire that's dimmed to embers.

And then Luca leans close and whispers something in the coyote's ear. And the man reaches up and takes Luca in his arms, and Luca folds himself around the coyote's neck, and they embrace for a long moment, and then they turn away from each other quickly, and Luca ascends the steps. Lydia watches through the window as El Chacal lifts his pack from one of the lawn chairs, hoists his replenished water supplies, and heads back into the desert.

Es mi cielo, mi luna, y todas mis estrellas. My sky, my moon, and all my stars.

If you're a person who has the capacity to be a bridge, why not be a bridge?

Sumac and mountain mahogany band together

beauty begets empathy

you truly are la reina de mi alma." The queen of my soul.

They perceive each other, the unspoken trauma they've both endured, their reasons for being here. It's as subtle and significant as a heartbeat.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.