284 quotes found
“Every heartbeat a syllable for words I cant speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing.”
“How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often he searched for a simile, found one in his work torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely ...”
“She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.Humans could never know each other that way.They could never really get into another person's head.All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that yo...”
“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His c...”
“A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.”
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering ...”
“Sex is a metaphor for everything else and everything is a metaphor for sex as well. Because sex is a coming together of two weather patterns, two separate countries, two entities in a conscious sta...”
“What kind of world have we built when it is more acceptable to ask for sex than a cuddle session? Have we so stripped our sexuality of inherent value that it becomes the sacrificial lamb on the al...”
“And all of the late, late-night talks, when you're not stoned, but you're so tired you might as well be, when you just sit there glowing with warmth, and all of those things that you really hope fo...”
“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict wit...”
“For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my...”
“Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.”
“Life is about connection, not perfection.”
“Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we dont, but half the time thats a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, bu...”
“It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.”
“To love others, first find that sense of connection within yourself. In other words, love yourself first. that's when you will learn to love life.”
“The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers."Stanley Kunitz”
“There has to be some way this wont end in tragedy. Why cant Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? Its as if the universe wont abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if ...”
“Captain Dan Miller about space: It is full & silent...It is like a woman with a secret. I felt as if I were seeing something of myself...I felt as if I were somehow connected to these great beings.”
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
