Quotes about Connection

It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.

The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.

One other person can go a long way towards making your world right, she said, but the support has to run both ways. Saying love has to come from a strong place, not just grabbing whatever's in reach. You can't choose your family, but partner is your best shot at a decent do-over.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

Golden children ran wild over a field of dead great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and the bones must have wanted to rise up and knock together and rattle with joy. I have never seen a town that gave so much—so much of what counts—to its children. More than anything else I wished I belonged to one of these living, celebrated families, lush as plants, with bones in the ground for roots. I wanted pollen on my cheeks and one of those calcium ancestors to decorate as my own.

We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying to have sex with the sky.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there??shared vision and values.

To retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.