Quotes About Intimacy

Even our phone calls were like crawling naked across a field of broken glass.

Each is free to be everything the other desires, we fulfil each other's fantasies, and do not risk the boredom of familiarity.

they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he'd been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together.

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked." -- Brilliance, 2013

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked.

And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love.

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

for an incestuous friendship will outlive, as I have discovered, any passionate love.

To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Heart of my heart, bone of my bone, spirit of my spirt, we cannot be held.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile.

Our mothers live under our skin.

Di nuovo l'acqua tiepida. Come si fa a vivere con una persona con così pochi slanci verso di te? E' come fare il bagno nell'acqua tiepida. Non fa caldo, e non fa ancora freddo.

Avevano anche fatto l'amore da lontano, più di una volta. Senza dirselo, si erano ritrovati a sudare, a piegarsi in mezzo a un parco, su un autobus. Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso muri di macchine e di cemento.

Eravamo abituati uno sguardo così, l'uno accanto all'altra in silenzio, non ci dispiaceva.

Piangere insieme, per una coppia, è un minuscolo, emblematico accadimento... è il respiro dell'altro che crepa nella tua gola.

Lei ansima, il collo torto verso il soffitto rotto, e lui la guarda. E forse la guardava così, con la stessa tenerezza, la stessa nostalgia, mentre facevano l'amore.

Mi bacia a lungo sulla bocca, poi si lecca le labbra, dice che sono il sapore della sua vita.