Jenny Han Quotes

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

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 it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

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

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

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

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.