“For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.” PersonsMadeSpaceEmotionRiskDistanceIntimacyRomantic LoveFriendship LoveBearable Book:Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival Source: Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
“You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.” MenLossGriefEmotionIntimacyScareBoogie Author:Gary Zukav
“As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.” FirstsPersonsMatterCharacterEmotionResponsePrivilegePracticalsIntimacyDramaticGrantsCompellingFirst PersonRegisterViewpointsMonologuesImmediacyVagrants Author:Norman Lock