Amanda Hocking Quotes

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.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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.

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

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

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

I've never felt like this before. I'm naked around you. Does it show? You see right through me and I can't hide. I'm naked around you. And it feels so right.

The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.

You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.

You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.