Jenny Han Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Sex makes you get real.

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

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

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

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

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

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

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.

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 find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.