Quotes About Bond

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

She was my one true thing.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of how they wouldn't see friends for months, perhaps even years, and then it was as though they had never been apart. Picked up where we left off was the common phrase. It was supposed to signal some magical communion, but if you looked it right in the eye, it came down to this: the kinds of people they considered friends they might not even actually see for a long long time.

Being a parent is not transactional. We do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward: We are good parents, not so they will be loving enough to stay with us, but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

How many times she had heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of how they would't see friends for months, perhaps even years, and then it was as though they had never been apart. Picked up where we left off was the common phrase. It was supposed to signal some magical communion, but if you looked it right in the eye, it came down to this: the kind of people they considered friends they might not even actually see for a long long time.

Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master, and so in time I got used to everything...

To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands.

You do not know me; you cannot think of me or love me yet; and yet how fervently my heart is knit to yours; how grateful I am for all the joy you give me!

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

unless I should ever find a real friend

I understand my girlfriends better than my own mother. Isn't that a shame?

one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.

The development of relationship creates plot.

Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.

We belong where love finds us.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.