Ned Vizzini Quotes

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

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to 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.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

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

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

I feel really held in being vulnerable. That's always been the kind of music that I've gravitated to as well, but to feel really supported by my audience in that is a real privilege.

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

Open your hands if you want to be held.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

Honesty. And I just really think there's a fundamental friendship that needs to exist, whether it's a lover, whether it's a sister...there's just this connection both people need to be effortlessly themselves.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.