Charlaine Harris Quotes

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

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

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

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

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

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

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

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

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.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

It creates community when you talk about private things.