Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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

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

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

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.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

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

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

When a woman says the connection is gone, don't tell her how hot she is. A connection is more than someone's appearance.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

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

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.