Quotes About Bond

We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.

But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled on my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I've been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you, Grandma

When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint . . . Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.

Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.

I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you, Grandma.

how can you say I love you to someone you love?

Eram ca doi prieteni. Pentru prima oara de cand ma stiam, m-am simtit in intregime bine.

She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, "I mount the autobus for an hour to work all day doing things I hate. You want to know why? It is for you, Alexi-stop-spleening-me! One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family.

there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.

Un giorno farai per me cose che hai in odio. E' questo che vuol dire essere una famiglia.

Entre dos seres existe siempre una distancia singular, infranqueable, un santuario impenetrable. Unas veces adquiere forma de soledad. Otras, de amor

Cat lovers display an intensity lacking — thank goodness — in most human relationships.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family.

Intr-o zi, tu ai sa faci pentru mine lucruri care nu-ti plac. Asta inseamna familie.

The Song that Toomai's Mother sang to the Baby

But when God speaks, it's silver. Psalm 12:6 says, "The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace…purified seven times." Purity and silver go together best when it comes to describing God's Word. Why does God choose this precious metal? Perhaps it's because gold requires impurities so it can bond. But not silver. God is less interested in attractiveness and more interested in purity.

Il libro non è un ente chiuso alla comunicazione: è una relazione, è un asse di innumerevoli relazioni.

Me tocó una compañera muy seguidora, que iba como adivinándome la intención. El tango hacía su voluntá con nosotros y nos arriaba y nos perdía y nos ordenaba y nos volvía a encontrar.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

This," I said, "could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.

James JamesMorrison MorrisonWeatherby George DupreeTook great care of his MotherThough he was only three.James JamesSaid to his Mother,"Mother," he said, said he,"You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me."