Orson Scott Card Quotes

It sounds corny to say, but we're like a family. That experience for all of us really created a bond... The 'West Side Story' experience, it really is a family. There's a closeness that has continued.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

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

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

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

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?

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

The only important things are family and love.

There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.

Love is closeness.

My audience is like my family at this point.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.