Jodi Picoult Quotes

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

Are you okay?" Daniel whispered, his voice soft, his lips so close to hers. "Yes." She could feel the beating of his wings. "You caught me." "I will always catch you when you fall.

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

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.

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.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

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.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

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.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

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

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Sex is a two-way treat.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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

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

Intimacy is healing.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.