Erin O'Connor Quotes

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

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

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Just because I give you a piece of me doesn't mean you get it all. There's very few people in my life who get it all, and that's sacred to me.

You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.

My relationship with Nayan is too personal to talk about. I am not comfortable sharing it.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

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.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.