Veronica Roth Quotes

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

You are the land. The land is you.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.