"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break."β β Chinese Proverb
Thereβs something between us [...]Β a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to youβ β
β β F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Presumption'
I am stretched like a bow with your pull.
β β Rumi, The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication; from βGive Up Yourselfβ, tr. Will Johnson and Nevit Ergin
Something of you still taut / still tugs still pulls, / a rope that trembled / hummed between us.
β β Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman; from 'Vino Tinto'
I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to youβespecially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
β β Charlotte BrontΓ«, from βJane Eyreβ
There was a silence between them, and a strange tension of hostility. They always kept a gap, a distance between them, they wanted always to be free each of the other. Yet there was a curious heart-straining towards each other.
β β D. H. Lawrence, from 'Women in Love'
I could feel the inevitable magnetic polar forces in us, and the tidal blood beat loud, Loud, roaring in my ears, slowing and rhythmic.
β β Sylvia Plath,Β from βThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plathβ β β 15th May 1952
The tides inside your heart still pull me towards you.
β β Richard Jackson, from 'After All This', published in 'Salt Hill 22'
By then I was used to silence. / Though something stretched between us / like a whisper, like a rope:
β β Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from βOrpheus (1)β
β β what still deepens pulls us back together.
β CaitrΓona OβReilly, The Nowhere Birds; fromΒ βPossessionβ
We're connected by a thread / If we're ever far apart / I'll still feel the pull of you
β β The National, from βThe Pull of Youβ
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