You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Stephen is my boyfriend," Doug said. "We're gay together." "I'm also gay when we're apart," Stephen added.
The Sweets rarely set foot on the avenues. They'd always lived on the street-side of town, where duct tape held everything together and WD-40 stopped the squeaks.
A friend is a companion for the journey, never a means to our own. What we take we take together, the joy we reap, we have sown.
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
When I was little, my mother used to tell me that the universe was made in sparks. Would that mean that at the beginning, someone had clacked two cosmic stones together?.
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together
Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didn’t know you were studying them. What class is that you’re taking? Sky: The ‘we-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together’ class.
The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we’ve both looked at each of them together.
My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?
Aren’t those vegetables sexy, Rog?” Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. “Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years.
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.
He’d said he couldn’t let her go. She couldn’t figure out how they could stay together.
