Quotes About Intimacy

After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

So much road and so few places, so much friendliness and so little intimacy, so much flavour and so little taste.

He had to have her, he definitely had to have her. She was not merely the latest object on which his greedy desire to be saved had fixed itself; no, she was the woman who was going to save him. The woman whose fine intelligence and deep sympathy and divine body, yes, whose divine body would successfully deflect his attention from the gloomy well shaft of his feelings and the contemplation of his past.

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All

Isabelle didn't need to call my name. Not because of the twin telepathy thing people always talk about, but because we were holding hands. We were holding hands the tightest we have ever held hands in our entire lives. We were holding hands just as we had on the day we were born.

And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.

when one individual in a marriage stands up to another, while the other will not like it at first, he or she generally will begin to find the person more attractive.

Valentine Weather Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Les autres mettent des semaines et des mois pour arriver à aimer, et à aimer peu, et il leur faut des entretiens et des goûts communs et des cristallisations. Moi, ce fut le temps d'un battement de paupières.

Elle ne se doutait pas qu'il était en train d'adorer sa gaucherie et qu'il gardait le silence pour la faire durer.

La vrai amour ce n'est pas de vivre avec une femme parce qu'on l'aime, mais de l'aimer parce qu'on vit avec elle.

Mais qu'avons-nous tous, pauvres humains, à vouloir nous serrer contre un autre corps ?

I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I didn't," "you sure the fuck did" – they hugged that bicker to their chests like blankets fighting cold.

People form their real friendships before they're twenty-five,—generally, before they are twenty,—I think. Up to that time we're trustful and hideously disinterested; and after that age we get to liking people for the amount of amusement or profit or inspiration we can drag from them. But, up to then, it's friendship because—well, just because it's friendship. That's the way it was with us, anyhow.

He was Sunnybank Lad; eighty-pound collie; tawny and powerful; with absurdly tine white forepaws and with a Soul looking out from his deep-set dark eyes. Chum and housemate he was to two human gods; - a dog, alone of all worshipers, having the privilege of looking on the face of his gods and of communing with them without the medium of priest or of prayer.

Hay ciertos sentimientos que aumentan en el alma cuando se confían, y el amor es uno de ellos - Rafael San Luis

Imagínate que a ella le vino su primer período en mi casa. A ese nivel de intimidad, puh galla.

L'innamoramento è una catastrofe esistenziale che ci coinvolge in maniera radicale anche se del tutto oscura.