Quotes About Bond

I might not be able to break the Gunderson curse, but I can break the curse of having a friend like you.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

I'm going to marry you till you puke.

Like neurons, we send and receive messages from one another across a synapse—the social synapse.

There is nothing so good and lovely as when man and wife in their home dwell together in unity of mind and disposition.

We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. Louis de Bernieres as quoted in Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

He spoke softly to the horse, and its ears twitched. It was funny about a horse—how much they would give for gentleness. There was no animal that responded so readily to good treatment, and no other animal would run itself to death for a man—except, occasionally, a dog.

And the two men walked down the street side by side, Ab Kale and his son.…

He had been the best of fathers and it was never easy to be a father to strong sons growing up in a strange land, each coming to manhood, each asserting himself, loving the father yet wishing to be free of him, finding fault to make the break easier. So it had been since the world began, for the young do not remain young and the time must come when each must go out on his own grass. I

It ain't so bad," he said. "There's nobody to write to. I never had nobody, Tell." "You had us, Shorty, and when we ride over the rim, we'll be lookin' for you. Keep an eye out, will you?

How can he be your friend if you don't like him?

You may not believe this, Louis, but I don't have many friends." He put his hand on Louis's shoulder. "You're like a son to me," he said. "And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

Friends stick by each other when one is down. That is a true test of friendship. But sometimes, it is harder to stick by a friend who is up.

this, Louis, but I don't have many friends." He put his hand on Louis's shoulder. "You're like a son to me," he said.

someone special.

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!

we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Is that my boy?' As sure as this is my girl!

he felt he could willingly give his life for them.

This is just the time, Meg, when young married people are apt to grow apart, and the very time when they ought to be most together, for the first tenderness soon wears off, unless care is taken to preserve it. And no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given to them to train.

We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.