Quotes About Bond

A veces las relaciones que se cimentan en el daño son más persistentes que las que se basan en el amor.

It was a mother's prerogative, to be affectionately critical of her child.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no coldness, no craft, no tremor or fear in her love. Although our relationship may encompass tears, frustration, even fury, it is an utterly reliable bond. As it grows, her love is literally unadulterated. Her love is wholly of the child, pure in its essence as children are in their direct passions. Children do not love wisely, but perhaps they love the best of all.

You can never get enough of the ones you love, thought Thomas

He squeezed her hand. She squeezed his hand back. That's how they sometimes talked.

She was a horse lover and she and Whitey kept a mean old paint, a fancy quarter horse/Arabian mix, a roan Appaloosa with one ghost eye named Spook, and a pony. So along with the whiskey and perfume and smoke, she often exuded faint undertones of hay, dust, and the fragrance of horse, which once you smell it you always miss it. Humans were meant to live with the horse.

I imagined myself in some way defined by my relation to another creature.

Slowly and inevitably, she fell in love with each person in the family, only she didn't know what to call it. She simply found herself related.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

We die alone, the saying went. But Susannah had never believed it. Not when you come from a close family, not when you are surrounded by love.

In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.

When you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life.

I had a dog once. I thought so much of him that when he died I couldn't bear the thought of getting another in his place. He was a friend.

To my dogs," he announced, "I am a legend.

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

HIDING OUR PARENTAGE was a leisure pursuit, but one we took seriously. Sometimes a parent would edge near, threatening to expose us. Risking the revelation of a family bond. Then we ran like rabbits.

which house that is? Or how many siblings you have?

Even if words could reach to eternity there would not be enough to express the way I feel about you.

Things like this—love-relationships—need a certain minimum of proximity to keep them going.

I trust you with my life. I'm pretty sure I love you. But more importantly, I like you.

Etienne abrió sus brazos en ademán de invitación y respiró aliviado cuando ella se entregó a su abrazo. Allí era donde debía estar. Podía sentirlo. En trescientos años ninguna otra mujer le había hecho sentir que era la adecuada. Había acertado al transformar a Rachel. Estaba hecha para él.

The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father's place. He

Cathecting, it will be remembered, is the process by which an object becomes important to us. Once cathected, the object, commonly referred to as a "love object," is invested with our energy as if it were a part of ourselves, and this relationship between us and the invested object is called a cathexis.