Quotes About Intimacy

It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.

though darkness bound them closer than light.

I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela,' he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. 'Telling the truth makes you cry.

But it does mean that she almost never witnesses lovers' quarrels, bedtime stories, classroom arguments, supper-table gossip, or bitter tears privately shed. She only knows that aspect of our lives that we represent as digital information.

I'm not in love with Eiadh because she's the most beautiful young woman in Basilica and therefore quite probably in the entire world. I'm in love with her because we can talk together, because of the way she thinks, the sound of her voice, the way she cocks her head to listen to an idea she doesn't agree with, the way she rests her hand on mine when she's trying to persuade me.

Ella se sentía contenida en su abrazo, nunca confinada.

When you really know somebody, you can't hate them.' 'Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

If I had any part of you in me," said Han Fei-tzu, "I would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person.

After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You

I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend

His voice was a caress. No, stringer, it was like a hand gripping her hand, steadying her.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.