"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."

Connection, Open, Surrender

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"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."

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"I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it.By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived."

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"A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. ['A thousand times']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

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"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Her fingers were trembling.Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle."Okay?" she whispered.He nodded, taking a deep breath. They both stared down at their hands.Jesus."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Connection, Emotion, Comfort, Affection

"I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."

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