Quotes About Bond

The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate

For my sister, life was one long group hug

Once upon a time, in the Official Version, we were blessed and happy, our parents young, privileged and good-looking, we, their children, bound for special destinies like they'd had. In Boston, our ship struck the iceberg and went down in an hour, but all hands appeared to make to the lifeboats. The trip to shore proves long, and only when we finally muster do we realize one of us is missing.

He rolls his eyes when I mention the dog connection. "What is it with you and dogs?" "Dogs are like humans, only better in every respect," I say.

But if I've learned one thing during our descent into dog rescue lunacy, it's that dogs bridge gaps between people. they smooth over the human condition, and they provide an extraordinarily valuable function. They take people of all political persuasions, religious faiths, and geographical locations and represent something that everyone can love.

We are caught together," he said, quoting Henry Beston, "in the net of life and time. We are fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

We are connected to our children no matter what. They are interwoven into each cell and inseparable from every neuron. They supersede our consciousness, dwell in our every hollow and cavity and recess with our most primitive instincts, deeper even than our identities, deeper even than our selves.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Your friendgirl*?

oe led her father out of the pub,

most of all he wanted to tell them about the marvellous adventure he had shared with her,

As long as you love me, I can never die.

No one could replace Dad, but Winnie made him feel safe. And warm. And most importantly, loved.

all friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

Good-bye, Molly," I muttered. "Of all the dogs I've known in my life, I've never seen a better driver.

save your love for the things that can love you back.

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

The soul is a thing apart. When you decide to share that with someone, then you will know what it is to live.