Quotes About Intimacy

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

We are afraid, for example, of letting others know more about us than we know about ourselves, fearing most of all that our masks will slip, and will lose control, letting others see us as we truly are.

Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy and completely pollutes your skin. You make allowances for all this. In fact, this only increases your concern and love for your body; you wait on it and wash it, and you endure and help in every way you can. Why not do the same with the spouse whom God has given you, who is an even greater treasure and whom you have even more reason to love?

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

They could make love while powerfully under the influence of grass or ecstacy, their usual drugs, and even while tripping, but often the drugs made them more prone to lying on their mattress in a fond embrace without actually doing anything much.

In this way they would spend the remaining hours of their wakefulness, passing into a kind of tantric and ecstatic state of pleasurable feelings before eventually drifting off to sleep, feeling that they were very much in love and everything in the world was good.

le corps a faim [...] du battement d'un autre coeur pour régler le rythme du sien.

There are many types of love,

People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret.

She was his Achilles heel because deep inside he loved her, really loved her, and he knew that once she had loved him. Adored him even. Until she had sussed him out.

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.

all i want it's a pièce of your heart not all of it

What really matters in sex isn't the things you can measure; it's how people feel, which is a lot harder to explore, understand, measure, or fix.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

There is no earlier period in the history of the West that it is possible to get to know quite so well or so intimately (we have nothing like such rich and varied evidence from classical Athens). It is not for more than a millennium, in the world of Renaissance Florence, that we find any

I never knew how much the heart can expand.

They are hungering for "a deep sexual experience." They'll sleep with anybody who wears braids or a choker. I

You said you'd not get weird after sex.