Quotes About Bond

Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallenQuestion [1954], st. 1

Body my house my horse my hound What will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure When Body my good bright dog is dead How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye with cloud for a shift how will I hide?

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog ?ega, kao ljubav.

There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.

We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three.

I was happiest when he just came and lay down next to me, and I could almost feel the weight of his body against mine.

Pero estamos todos entrelazados, como las hebras de un trozo de tela, y nos apoyamos mutuamente, por suerte o por desgracia.

and I smiled at her because I still liked her from yesterday.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

People's marriages were like two-person religious cults, impossible to understand.

The love between a brother and sister just over a year apart in age held fast. It wasn't twinship, and it wasn't romance, but it was more like a passionate loyalty to a dying brand.

for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

the Siamese-twinship of marriage

knew everything about him, the way wives do. I even knew the inside of him, having been there that day in Dr. Ruffner's office to review the footage of Joe's colon. We sat and watched light travel through his most intimate inner tubing, and after that we were really bound together for life.

It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.

Families always seem to me like this weird accident." "What do you mean?" Opal asked. "I don't know," said Erica. She gestured with both hands, fingers splayed. "It's almost as if a bunch of people who have absolutely no reason to be together all drew straws and somehow wound up on the same commune.

She clung marsupially,

Maybe it'll be legal to marry places one day. And if so, then I will marry this one.

Give me your hand," she says, offering hers. "Hurry now.

But she became Gabby's friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl with the occasional slash of pink in her hair. The two of them like a pair of exotic birds dipping over the school's water fountains—you knew they would find each other.

Don't you wonder what happened, Goldie?" "What happened to what?" "To our family. Aunt Florence just told me that she and my mother were close. Like twins, she said.