Quotes about Connection

I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.

That means you're my kid, I explained, and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

Always we walk each other home. And always we walk some of it alone.

I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

This is why we have families.... So we never have to go a single day without worrying ourselves sick.

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.