Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I trust my wife more than I trust myself.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.

What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to let you touch me first?" "Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands." "I've seen no evidence of that, Cath." "In my head, I'm all hands." "I want to live in your head.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

To love means you also trust.

Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return

I believe love opens people up.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

Trust is even more important than love.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.