Quotes About Intimacy

Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy. Wendy: That's kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.

I can't stress this enough: The single thing that will guarantee a happy, fulfilled, and calmer life is the quality of your human relationships, especially the people you love and who love you back.

When you have a great intimacy coordinator on set - which Bridgerton' does - you eliminate all of the stress.

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.

I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.