Stephenie Meyer Quotes

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

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.

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

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.

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

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

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

You can't develop full relationships with anybody unless you're fully honest about who you are.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.