Jenny Downham Quotes

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.

I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

I take friendship very seriously.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

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.

You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I've always been a really open person around my friends.

I really like working with people who believe what they're saying.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place