Quotes About Intimacy

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

My wife knows that I love her too much, so she is fine with the intimate scenes I do. She also knows that only if my role justifies such a scene will I do it. She understands my work as an actor.

Rubina and I have been together since so long, and she understands me completely.

It's really tricky to find someone who understands the relationship that Tessa and I have, because it's unique.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

I'm an addict for underwear.

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.

Sexual underwear is tacky.

A great spa session followed by fine dining followed by passionate love-making is undoubtedly an ideal date plan.

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Dating is hard enough in the light, so I can't wait to see what unfolds when the lights are off!

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

You will never feel alone if you love the person you are living with.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Explore the extent of love.

To know someone is to have your own personal experiences with them, not lead by the opinion of others.

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.