Quotes About Intimacy

There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.

You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa)

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

I only have eyes for you.

I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

that's it -- hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? a reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. it was more than that. i know it was more than that.

This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us. We are desirable. We desire. Every kiss that matters contains a recognition at its core.

fraught, adj. Does every "I love you" deserve an "I love you too"? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is "No," what do we do?

There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.

Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other.

i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

R: I know that deep down, I mean the world to him. A: Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe.