Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Intimacy is a difficult art.

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.

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

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

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

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.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

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.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

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

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

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

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

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

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?