Cynthia Voigt Quotes

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

I think what's really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.

Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Let me think about the people I care about.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.