Quotes About Bond

Do you want to be my dad?

Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.

Family isn't something one discards lightly.

Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is.

The only really important thing, their friendship, had survived the storm, and that made them both feel very, very lucky.

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn't wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It's the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It's the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.

Once she was born, I was never not afraid.

Were we unusually dependent on one another the summer we swam and watched Tenko and went to dinner at Morton's? Or were we unusually lucky?

When my mother was near death at age ninety she told me that she was ready to die but could not. "You and Jim need me," she said. My brother and I were by then in our sixties.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people," she said. "The hardest is with one.

When Holding, clinging to the poop with five others

to have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.

Parents don't get to call in and take a day off. As always, the sight of her filled me with such an unbearable ache of love that it nearly knocked me to my knees. How could one small person have become my entire existence? I couldn't even imagine life without her. She was the sum total of my reason for living. Picking

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

Suspicacia y supervivencia son hermanas gemelas, así que perder una supone despedirse de la otra.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.