Amy Bloom Quotes

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

To me, love has always meant friendship.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

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.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Intimacy is healing.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".