Kate Klise Quotes

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

Timing is everything with relationships.

I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

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

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.