Quotes About Intimacy

I loved those two people. - Graham on the Clintons

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

Anna go ubóstwia?a. Nie odst?powali siebie na krok, a cesarzowa dostraja?a si? do zmiennych nastrojów partnera i by?a na ka?de jego skinienie.

The note was brief—three paragraphs, two hundred and seventy-three words, the lines crowded together as if for warmth.

I'm glad you're the one I get to leave the parties with.

It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.

Dry-humping, I believe it's called.

What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me. I guess. I had expected homosexuality to be dark and furtive, but it wasn't.

Dr. N: How do you manage to hold each other with no bodies? S: (with a sigh of exasperation at me) We envelop each other in light, of course. Dr. N: Tell me what that is like for spirits? S: Like being wrapped in a bright-light blanket of love.

Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.

He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

We talk for maybe ten minutes, perfunctory talk in a way that we're never really perfunctory, all skirting the question of us, and I begin to wonder if she had caller ID whether she'd picked up at all.

Sara and I still find a way to talk for hours on the phone, or within the span of ten minutes somehow make it feel like it's been hours. Early in our relationship, when we lived apart for a time, we'd talk every night on the phone.

She's a woman who enjoys the liberal use of first names.

Eu as prefera sa beau vin facut de omul care mi-l serveste, fiindca beau persoana insasi. Ma impregnez de fiinta ei, de iubirea ei.

Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident...

It is important that sons and daughters be able to trust their parents with personal, intimate knowledge.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

we're the only species that looks into its mate's eyes during intercourse? It developed our concept of the other