Quotes About Bond

Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.

Number one: you are not the first and you will certainly not be the last. Number two: remember, it's not about the money—it's about The Chain.

How her fist fits my palm, A bunch of consolation.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Nobody ever told me that motherhood was temporary. You think you have years and years with them, but the truth is, you don't.

There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.

There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.

I realize now that a happy mother might very well make a joyful child.

still miss my mother. Isn't it funny? You forget plenty, but never your mother.

when it looked like she was about to cuff herself to the wheel, Q reached out his hand to stop her only to have the other bracelet slapped onto his wrist.

All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?

after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.

Though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

They hug tightly, expressing the pure affection available only to two people who have no further designs upon each other. Their lack of time is a privilege.

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason.

Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.

We are together, all else can be endured.

I am secure in the knowledge that I am the mother of your heart, Etsuko said, smiling. But she is the mother of your blood. She deserves to see what a fine woman you have become

I'm lucky, you see: I had two mothers. One gave life to me; one raised me. But they both loved me. You know, some people don't even get that once... There's only one disadvantage, really, to having two mothers. You know twice the love... but you grieve twice as much.