Quotes About Intimacy

He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, that's hers, you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence.

Don't be afraid; I'll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, and you'll live in my gaze like a mote in a sunbeam.

This is the girl, here, this girl with a ruined look who touches me and whom I love.

Love's a grand solace, isn't it, my friend? Deep and dark as sleep.

So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

Sensuality takes planning and work.

My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

I'd promised myself that I'd really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together.

I love the way you work out," I whisper. "I love the way you work me.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.