Jonathan Carroll Quotes

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

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

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

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

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

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.

It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

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

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

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