Quotes About Bond

It was a leap into the other

It had no means of surviving but the thread that bound it to home.

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

In this time, I learned for myself as my teacher predicted, how it is these two extremes - that we are transported by love and jailed by it - that are ever impossible for mothers to reconcile.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

I've always thought that the supreme relationship is the one between mother and child, and the bond of mothers and sons can be devastatingly intimate like no other relationship on earth.

It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly. RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister.

The sanctification ... demanded is always an implicate of the sanctification that originates in God's mercy. Hence the sanctification of believers is never an independent area of human activity ... we can speak truly of sanctification only when we have understood the exceptionally great significance of the bond between Sola-fide and sanctification ... the Sola-fide ... a confession of 'By grace alone we are saved' ... is the only sound foundation for sanctification.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.

Tous mes amis sont des mots.

You will never known the extent to which my soul is yours.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Friendship is friendship, and charity is charity.... the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.