“Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.”

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German poet 1770–1843

Elizabeth Noble (1968) British novelist

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“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Who do we belong with but each other?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

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“We are agreed that before we kill each other we should better serve mankind by killing those who order us to kill each other.”

John Brunner book The Stone That Never Came Down

Source: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 23 (p. 180)

“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin

Mother Teresa Reflects on Working Toward Peace, ( essay, Santa Clara University, https://legacy.scu.edu/ethics/architects-of-peace/Teresa/essay.html retrieved August 2012). <br class="br">2010s

“Here in Boston, in Massachusetts, we will do what we do best: We will fight back, fiercely—for our freedoms and for each other. This moment does not belong to the far right. It belongs to us, like our bodies. And we decide what to do with it.”

Michelle Wu (1985) City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts

24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY

“If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort we would find.”

John Churton Collins (1848–1908) British literary critic

Variant: If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

“Whatever we are
We belong together
Wherever we are
We will find each other
Whoever we are
We are
Forever one.”

Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer

A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life

“If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable.”

Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.”

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