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Quotes About Intimacy

Filled with hope, Ico looked into Yorda's eyes. He felt like was looking into an hourglass, trying to pick through the grains of sand for some truth buried there long ago. He hadn't found anything yet, but the warmth of Yorda's hands in his told him that he was getting close.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~ Unknown
For a woman, there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
~ Molly Haskell
I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Love is a knife that really only cuts one way, and that's deep.
~ Molly O'Keefe
You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?" "I want to be with you." The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath. The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.
~ Molly O'Keefe
It's a seduction, Annie. It's about want. Not need." "You've already seduced me," she whispered. "All I want is you.
~ Molly O'Keefe
She was saying words she didn't totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Listen to me," he said. "I will never hurt you or touch you. I won't put my hands on you unless you ask me. Beg me." I gasped and fell back against the door, strength leaving my legs. "And I want you to beg me," he said, still closer. "And I think someday you will.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Save your act for other people. The lies and the show – I don't want it. I want you. Fucked up and crazy. I want you.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Show me something you never show anyone. Give me a piece of your soul, because I just showed you mine and because I need to fucking live on something and I have nothing. Give me something I can live on. For a minute. That's all I want.
~ Molly O'Keefe
We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move. He was going to wreck me. Break me. And I'd never needed anything more.
~ Molly O'Keefe
It was him and it was me and it was nothing else.
~ Molly O'Keefe
The ways she was different from any other woman in my life could not be counted. I didn't want to say she was sweet, because that seemed to negate all the ways she was fierce. I didn't want to say she was generous, because it would deny the ways she was selfish. I'd never had a woman in my life show me so much of herself.
~ Molly O'Keefe
I wanted to show you the truth of me. And…loving you is a part of that. It's a part of who I am now.
~ Molly O'Keefe
I'm just…fuck. I'm just so glad you answered that damn phone.
~ Molly O'Keefe
And it was like he couldn't hold her close enough, or hard enough against him, and I've…I've never been held like that. Not once. Not ever. And I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.
~ Molly O'Keefe
I've never…" she whispered as I kissed her neck. Her hear. The skin under her chin. She really was soft all over. "This isn't like me." I leaned back. Looked deep into her startled and wary blue eyes. "You looking for permission to fuck the way you like?" I asked. "It's yours.
~ Molly O'Keefe
I'm not talking about whether or not you'll send me a card next February." She shook her head. "I can't be with a withholder. I won't live with little denials." The way she said that, it sounded like he'd proposed.
~ Mona Simpson
Everything was out in our crowded lawn, really—love, anger and jealousy. History and intimacy. You could breath it in, thick as fog. I wanted to yell, Get out of our yard!
~ Monica Drake
Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.
~ Monica Drake
What I feel in that kitchen is the way humans are so flawed and so perfect, and I want to share bodies. You know your old dog? That's how I feel—I want to climb on people, breathe their breath, lick the inside of stranger's mouths. I don't know these two, but who do we ever know, really, past the skin? How do we get there?
~ Monica Drake
You will be my favorite ex," I whispered in his ear. "I'll be your fifth former wife. We'll mutter crazy dreams together then apart, but you will always be with me." His breath was warm and so very human, not demonic at all. He said, "Don't break my nose." I said, "I won't even break your heart.
~ Monica Drake
And she thought, Who the hell are you, Mister? But his eyes were blue and his hair was thick, and his arms were strong and sinewy. He had a Nevada tan, desert tan, wherever he'd been living, wherever he sometimes went. He was gorgeous, that hothead. She put an orange segment in her mouth, held it out toward his mouth, leaned in, rolled on top of him, her body over his, and he bit into the orange, gulped it even, made his mouth ready for more, for her, like he'd been starving.
~ Monica Drake