Quotes about Connection

Always love someone who will love you back.

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. I've got to get to the bottom of this one, she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.

What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.