Kenneth Oppel Quotes

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

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

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

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

There are never enough I Love You's.

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.