Quotes About Bond

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

Bink, said Gollie, I must inform you that you are giving a home to a truly unremarkable fish. I love him said Bink.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.

I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.

smiled back. Winn-Dixie

hose. She pawed at his clothes and beat his tail. She dusted his

And he knew, suddenly and absolutely, that the baby he held in his arms was his sister, Adele. When

Hush"Robinetta answered, putting a finger on his lip; it isn't a question of how great you are or how wonderful: it is a question of what we can be to each other.

It was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.

We'll smell of fish forever," I said. "That would be nice.

When acquaintances embrace, one can read the gap between them. When friends, when siblings embrace, no matter how close, there is still an infinitesimal distance, like a layer of molecules, separating them. When a mother hugs her child, they meet. But when lovers embrace, they don't just meet but join. Tess

No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.

whatever age you are, you will always be his daughter, his little girl. He cannot help but want to protect you. It is the way of things.

Nahestehende zu überleben erfordert eine besondere Art von Mut, sagte sie leise.

We need a place, she said, just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

She was his; he was hers. The world could fall apart, and they'd still be one.

While our fellow pigeons did not regard bonds between hens as unnatural, the humans who kept us certainly seemed to—and in any case such a pairing could serve no human purpose, as it would yield no champion racers, no progeny at all. While I preferred to think of us as the humans' partners and collaborators—and we were; I wasn't wrong—we were also their property and their tools. What did I expect?

Love should be the final goal of a marriage, not a prerequisite.

How can you ask? Would I not follow the only thing on this Earth that I love? You are all I have left. Of course, dear child. I'll go with you to the end of time, to the end of space, and place. I'd cross oceans and borders-borders between centuries and between Kentucky and Indiana or Ohio or Michigan.

A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and-no matter how much we despised ourselves for it-unable quite to let each other go.

The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.

Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though it goes the other way.

So I know just how much it matters to you that people who love one another are brought together, even after many years.