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Quotes About Bond

This bond I draw between you: that though you are parted in mind or in body, there will be a call in the core of you, one to the other, that nothing, no one else will answer to. By the secrets of earth and water, this bond is woven, unbreakable, irrevocable; by the law that created fire and wind this call is set in you, in life and beyond life . . .
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Grace and I had a friendship for today… But our friendship is for always." Page 169
~ Patricia C. McKissack
I think there's a definite reason for every friendship just as there's a reason why certain atoms unite and others don't—certain missing factors in one, or certain present factors in the other—what do you think? I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Carol wanted her with her, and whatever happened they would meet it without running. How was it possible to be afraid and in love, Therese thought. The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.
~ Patricia Highsmith
He'll be fine with us. You can't worry about him all the time. Cade rode up behind Lily, catching her expression and partially interpreting it correctly. He's so young. Lily turned her head up to meet his gaze. He's all I've got, Cade. I've got a right to worry. I'll take care of him as well as you take care of Serena. No man can say better than that. I know that. Sighing, she turned and waved Roy off as he cantered after Abraham.
~ Patricia Rice
they were on the sort of terms which admit of intimacy, affection, and a familiarity which may breed anything between contempt and love. In fact a very wide frame into which almost any picture could be fitted.
~ Patricia Wentworth
we are always drawn to those with whom we have something in common.
~ Dale Carnegie
It takes the relationship to another level
~ Dale Carnegie
No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
~ Dan Brown
You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.
~ Dan Chaon
As mysterious as the part of himself that was chosen and loved by her, the part of himself that was there only when they were together.
~ Dan Chaon
ASS of U and ME.
~ Dan Gutman
He sits in the straight-backed chair next to the bed and lifts a cooling cup of tea. "If you die, what happens to me?" "I don't know," I say honestly. "If I die, I don't even know what happens to me.
~ Dan Simmons
Toward more life," said Aenea. "Life likes life. It's pretty much that simple. But more amazingly, nonlife likes life as well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wants to get into it.
~ Dan Simmons
The infant looked up at him and Sol felt the contact of her consciousness as surely as if she had spoken aloud.
~ Dan Simmons
That's precisely what messiahs do, Raul . . . bridge different worlds. Different eras. Provide the bond between two irreconcilable concepts.
~ Dan Simmons
I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.
~ Dana Reinhardt
I touched follow on my phone's screen. I saw it—a vision—two half sisters who had never known of one another's existence, sending the most modern version of a smoke signal, each from her own coast. I see you. I see you, too.
~ Dani Shapiro
I'm not giving you up," she said. The thin shell holding me together cracked, and suddenly I was weeping with my whole body. "And you'd better not be giving me up," she said. Every syllable, deliberate. "I'm not giving you up, Shirl," I sobbed. "I was so afraid that—" "I have fewer years ahead of me than behind me," she said. "And you are my brother's daughter.
~ Dani Shapiro
Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond.
~ Daniel Goleman
Limbic structures generate feelings of pleasure and sexual desire—the emotions that feed sexual passion. But the addition of the neocortex and its connections to the limbic system allowed for the mother-child bond that is the basis of the family unit and the long-term commitment to childrearing that makes human development possible. (Species that have no neocortex, such as reptiles, lack maternal affection; when their young hatch, the newborns must hide to avoid being cannibalized.)
~ Daniel Goleman
As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.
~ Daniel Keyes
Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysterious to them.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
couldn't go on, and in my anguish at not being able to tell him this, I thought him this, with all the mental power I possessed. He was stunned—as was I when I saw that he'd heard my mental cry.
~ Daniel Quinn