Quotes About Bond

But Jess was sliding breathlessly down into the waiting sky, so she couldn't find the words to tell TillyTilly that sisters was something about being held without hands, and the skin-flinch of seeing and simultaneously being seen.

Not some sham family, politely avoiding having to care about one another, but people who would share a surname and the task of weaving a collective meaning into that name. People would support and protect and staunchly cherish one another.

For some people love is like a king they swear allegiance to. That kind of person has to be released from one bond before they can begin to forge another one. All very conventional behavior, but fiercely interior convention. I'm not trying to imply that such people are wise or that they impress me -- I'm one of them, and it's probably the most futile form of integrity going. But if it's a side dish to other forms of integrity, then it's all right.

times the girl offered her hand, her mother refused it. It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud.

It seems to me that truth has taken its place again in our little room, and become incarnate; that the greatest bond which can bind two beings together is being confessed, the great bond we did not know of, though it is the whole of salvation: "Before, I loved you for my own sake; to-day, I love you for yours."

Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

Et c'était pas un hasard. Je veux dire : on n'était pas là par hasard. On n'avait pas besoin de se le dire pour savoir qu'on était faits du même bois, un bois un peu pourri, mais un beau bois quand même.

Intimates are predestined.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Our employees are like extended members of our family.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.