Quotes About Intimacy

If love was real, then these bodily, human details could seem insignificant.

Loveless, we lay together.

Dennis had fallen asleep before Jules got home, though he denied it in that strange way that people often deny they've been sleeping.

Women were allowed to tell each other what they felt without holding back. Women could now say, "I love you," without any hesitation or discomfort or a sense that there were sexual overtones between them, even if one of them was gay.

Jonah couldn't tell her that what he wanted now, more than anything, was to fall asleep beside her. No touching, no kissing, no stimulation. No sensation, no consciousness. Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

Eleanor and Franklin had had six children together, but apparently Eleanor had once described sex with her husband as "an ordeal to be borne".

Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone

If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that.

Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl's debut.

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

Give me your hand," she says, offering hers. "Hurry now.

Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.    Walking

There's a hundred ways sex can ruin you, but there's no end to the ways love can.

The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments--what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.

Many of these men, and the women too, sometimes even more so, would like to use your heart against you," she says. "They think it's a ticking time bomb in your chest, waiting to explode." "Maybe it is," Diane blurts out. I look at her. Severin smiles. "Maybe that's our strength.

Who needs her here anyway, Dara thought, walking through the front door, that familiar scent of mildew, paste, old perfume. Who needed Marie's buzzy, antic energy, her nighttime pacing and her bad dreams, the way she used all Dara's tampons and ate all the sardines?

Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?

I have another friend who gets what I'm really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.

Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.

I looked again at the library, my vision made real, beautiful yes, but a terrible betrayal. I would never be able to come here again, I knew. Goldie and my uncle had been cruel and avaricious, but their greed was not so personal as Ellis's. Not so intimate. And yet, I knew also, in a way I had not known before, that its very intimacy made me stronger. I would not forgive him this,

we despise most those who know us at our worst. It's true. It's so true.

we despise most those who know us at our worst.

Any man can be led by desire, Soph. But desire isn't love. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is.