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Quotes About Intimacy

Never, never," she breathed into his fur, and he pressed his beating heart to hers.
~ Philip Pullman
the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them
~ Philip Pullman
I want to live with you for ever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life until I die, years and years and years away.
~ Philip Pullman
I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory
~ Philip Pullman
because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
~ Philip Pullman
You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.
~ Philip Roth
You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.
~ Philip Roth
I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.
~ Philip Roth
She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her.
~ Philip Roth
In a burst of calculated sincerity—miscalculated sincerity, it turns out—I tell one of the girls how the sight of her breasts pressing against her arms had led me to wish I were those arms. And is this so different, I ask, pushing on with the charm, from Romeo, beneath Juliet's balcony, whispering, "See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:/ O! That I were a glove upon that hand,/ That I might touch that cheek." Apparently it is quite different.
~ Philip Roth
Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread?
~ Philip Roth
Why, emotionally, is a man of his type reciprocally connected to a woman of her type? The usual reason: their flaws fit.
~ Philip Roth
It's the Sundays that keep these couples together. As if Sundays alone could be any worse.
~ Philip Roth
However much you may have hated me, why don't you come back so we can continue with our linear, logical life like all the other couples who hate each other?
~ Philip Roth
In the days of the Romance Run, each time you went back to the same whorehouses and you brought nylons to your favorite girls.
~ Philip Roth
Mario loves Hal so much it makes his heart beat hard.
~ David Foster Wallace
Everyone around us could see the way Lyndon hung on the sound of his wife's voice, saw the tiny curtsies, her social motions, as though each movement of Lady Bird gently burst a layer of impediment between her and him.
~ David Foster Wallace
the detumescence of a nipple scraped in shimmy by cotton
~ David Foster Wallace
Julie ha detto a Faye che lei è convinta che due persone innamorate attraversano tre fasi distinte prima di arrivare a conoscersi davvero. All'inizio si raccontano aneddoti e gusti personali. Poi ciascuno dei due dice all'altro in che cosa crede. E poi ciascuno osserva la relazione che c'è fra quello in cui l'altro ha detto di credere e quello che in effetti fa .
~ David Foster Wallace
Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache.
~ David Gemmell
Because love cannot be discussed objectively.
~ David Gerrold
I don't understand hook-ups, but I don't like touching very much, so maybe that's why.
~ David Gerrold
Four Essential Elements That Engender Trust (Chapter 8) 1. Credibility 2. Reliability 3. Intimacy 4.
~ David H. Maister
Kyra: I always felt profoundly at peace. I don't know why, it still seems true to me: if you have a love, which for any reason you can't talk about, your heart is with someone you can't admit - not to a single soul except for the person involved - then for me, well, I have to say, that's love at its purest. For as long as it lasts, it's this astonishing achievement. Because it's always a relationship founded in trust. Tom: It seems mad to me.
~ David Hare