Anthony Marra Quotes

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

My mom and I are very close.

With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

I think a dream date for me is some kind of fantastic conversation where you end up learning something really wonderful about a person.

When you don't have to say 'I love you,' when you don't have to prove your love by singing a song, or express it through the body, that's two souls connecting.

I am quite close to my mother. In fact, I speak to her every day.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

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?