Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

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

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

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

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence.

In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.