Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

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." ..." ..." ...".

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

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

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

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.

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

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

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

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

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.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

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?

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

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

A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'

Intimacy is healing.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.

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