Quotes About Intimacy

El único acto íntimo entre dos extraños que todavía es posible, es el de la lectura

I hear her slip into bed with him, and I hear everything that happens after that. Sex is such a strange and sloppy business, why bother to recount every slurp and moan that ensued? Tom and Honey deserve their privacy, and for that reason I will end my report of the night's activities here. If some readers object, I ask them to close their eyes and use their imaginations.

You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive.

A book is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy

Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.

Se pregunta si las palabras no serán un elemento esencial de la sexualidad, si hablar no es en definitiva una forma más sutil de acariciar, y si las imágenes que bailan en nuestra cabeza no son igual de importantes que los cuerpos que abrazamos.

Non parlo tanto del desiderio, quanto della consapevolezza, della scoperta che due persone, tramite il desiderio, possono creare una realtà più potente di quella che ciascuna potrebbe creare da sola.

Contrary to what many people want to believe, the novel is in good shape these days, as healthy and vigorous as it's ever been. It's an inexhaustible form, and no matter what the pessimists say, it's never going to die... Because a novel is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.

Wherever he was, I was with him now. I had given him my word to say nothing, and the longer I kept his secret, the less I belonged to myself.

It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having to ask for explanations.

A steady fuck is good for you.

wandering is intimacy's helpmate.

I wasn't fed; I was presented with lukewarm appetitive stimuli. I wasn't punished, but broken of my unconditioned reflexes. I wasn't loved, but brought up in an atmosphere of calculated intimacy and intense levels of commitment.

Most couples have songs they call their own. We had books. Authors. Artists. Silent movies.

I fuck like an upturned guppy.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

When my hope is in my ability to rule the day, my spouse becomes a constant threat rather than an intimate companion.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

The Lord, like every woman I have ever known, was cold and distant.

Without her, life for him would be something but half-lived, that to give her up would destroy not one, but two humans who together had found beauties and satisfactions of physical and spiritual relationship not dreamed of by most...

Estoy unido a ella por lazos que ni siquiera Dios puede romper. Un día, si una suave brisa le acaricia la mejilla, puede que sea mi aliento; y si una noche el fresco aire juega con su pelo, será mi espíritu el que pasa a su lado.

Apologizing is a concrete action that deepens trust, respect and intimacy