Barriers Quote by Tom Perrotta

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be…

— Tao Lin

It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me…

— Marisha Pessl

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer…

— Roxane Gay

At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of…

— Banana Yoshimoto

As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.

— Tammara Webber

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it…

— Junot Diaz

I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul mates in…

— Richelle Mead

Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause…

— Lisa Kleypas

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching…

— Marian Keyes

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A…

— Sarah Dessen

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

— Hank Williams III