Quotes About Intimacy

"Great love affairs start with Champagne…"

"All of me, loves all of you."

"The ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout."

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with?"

"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."

Marriage: sometimes soulmates, sometimes cellmates.

They do not love who do not show their love.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

I've never been happy with anyone, like I am when I'm with you.

Relationships make me happy.

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

You have taken me and quieted me. You have been such light to me that others have been your shadows. You come near me with the nearness of sleep. --Marriage, Wendell Berry

Or in the latter part of a late-winter Saturday afternoon, his mind turning (as he would not say, but as we knew) to the prospect of a visit to his might-as-well-be wife, Kate Helen Branch, he would stand up and stretch. "Well, boys, I reckon I better get on home and shine, shave, clean up, and sandpaper my tool.