Quotes About Connection

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

A)nd while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.

Strange, she thought, how friends come when you need them most! Some of them come and stay a long time...others come in and go out, but always leave something of themselves.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

The English are frosty When you're no kith or kin Of theirs, but how they alter When once they take you in! The kindest, the truest, The best friends ever known, It's hard to remember How they froze you to a bone.

They hugged, pressing each other's arms, and their brief embraces buoyed them up - forbearance and grace passing back and forth between them like a piece of shared clothing, designated for use by whoever needed it most.

What does it matter if she breaks something, compared to her feeling as though she belongs?

father-daughter relationship is unique in the kind of delight it brings to both persons, a proprietary pride that also contains an understanding of the boundaries that hold the two

He saw me notice and took my hands in his. "It's too quiet for me, Cousin, and too dry. You understand, don't you?" I don't, but I was charmed, as he knew I would be, in spite of my being against charm in principle.

It was a red flag, Polly and Robert decided, not to have old friends.

The days beaded a smooth chain of fine feeling.

There was nothing to replace an old friend who knew everything, who'd spent enough time in the childhood home to know the atmosphere and how emotions and silences transpired—to know how the other had really grown up.

Franklin Square series and

I feel so saturated with Maine, but am so separate from its people.

Maud, this is Dr. Goodman. I have asked her to sit in with us to get to know you a bit. She has been working with Heidi." "Oh. I didn't know." "I hope it is all right." Dr. Goodman quickly moved to shake Maud's hand with warm, dry fingers. A swift assessment occurred, and through an ineffable, possibly chemical process, the women reached the conclusion that they liked each other. She retreated to a spot behind Dr. Straight.

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There was nothing to replace an old friend who knew everything, who'd spent enough time in the childhood home to know the atmosphere and how emotions and silences transpired—to know how the other had really grown up. Polly felt the power of this truth as she sat in this room that she knew before she had language, with this person with whom she was a friend before friendship even began.

Anche se tendiamo a credere il contrario, la gioia si condivide meno della sventura.

It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning close to the body as possible without risk of immolation.

Anguish is the universal language

She stared at it for a long time, seeing the rabbit in the moon, and thoughts of Watership Down, which she'd read as a child, drifted into her head.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.