Chris Abani Quotes

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.

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

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

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.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

What I've learned is that what most women really want deep down inside is time to get to know you - and your undivided attention. They want it to be about them for a little while.

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

You want to attach emotionally.

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. "I'm not crazy," I whispered. "I know." Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.

I know you even under the skin.

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

There are many different ways to express intimacy - a look, a touch - and I think it enriches the characters and stories when you create those moments and then build on them.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.