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Quotes About Intimacy

And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.
~ Peter Abrahams
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
~ Peter Ackroyd
Ellen Brody: Wanna get drunk and fool around? Brody: Oh Yeah.
~ Peter Benchley
Later, she called him. Hopper said, "I love you, I need you." She replied, " Have you ever thought of suicide?
~ Unknown
I'd wade through slaughter ... To drink your bathwater.
~ Unknown
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.
~ Peter Cameron
People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else
~ Peter Carey
Charles loved her voice. It was so soft and blurred, like pastels. It made his neck tingle just to listen to her. It gave him the same delicious feeling he had as he hovered on the brink of sleep and this feeling - until now - had been the single most pleasant feeling in his life. It was the voice that coloured everything he now thought about her. It was shy and tentative and musical. Sometimes he did not manage to hear the words she said, but he did not let on about his deafness.
~ Peter Carey
Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.
~ Unknown
Paul doesn't call followers of Jesus "Christians." He calls them "in Christ." That isn't the easiest thing to understand, let alone explain, but it suggests an intimacy with Jesus that defies words. That intimacy also includes—somehow—suffering.
~ Unknown
Being "in" with God is about much more than the thoughts we keep in our heads, the belief systems we hold on to, the doctrines we recite, or the statements of faith we adhere to, no matter how fervently and genuinely we do so, and how important they may be.
~ Unknown
Rather than providing us with information to be downloaded, the Bible holds out for us an invitation to join an ancient, well-traveled, and sacred quest to know God, the world we live in, and our place in it. Not abstractly, but intimately and experientially.
~ Unknown
He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
He'd have to fuck her, but it was cheap rent.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End." The Princess Bride (1987) – Grandpa (Peter Falk)
~ Peter Falk
Insecurity in attachment relationships is a signal of limitation in mentalizing skills. We find that the traditional classification of attachment patterns may be helpfully reinterpreted in this context as indication of a relatively good (secure attachment), or relatively poor (insecure attachment) capacity to manage or cope with intimate interpersonal relationships. An absence of mentalizing capacity under stress is signaled by the disorganization of the attachment system.
~ Unknown
borderline individuals are specifically characterized by a fearful and preoccupied attachment style reflecting "an emotional template of intimacy anxiety/anger
~ Unknown
The unchallenged maintenance of a bond is experienced as a source of security and the renewal of a bond as a source of
~ Unknown
In your eyes I am complete.
~ Peter Gabriel
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
~ Peter Høeg
Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.
~ Peter Høeg
He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it'll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his penis so I can put my clitoris inside and fuck him.
~ Peter Høeg
Jag älskar honom, sa han. - Jag också, sa hon. Han böjde sig ner mot henne. - Kunde den omständigheten att vi mötts i denna djupa känsla bilda utgångspunkt för ett lån på fem tusen kronor? Hon tog fram sin plånbok, öppnade den, gav honom två tusenkronorssedlar.
~ Peter Høeg
Since we met, ever since that first time when we each sat on a toilet, up against the radiator, ever since then I have never been completely alone, even after you left me. Before that there had never really been anything in my life. But once someone has stood under the cold shower just so that you can stay under the warm one, then you can never really be totally alone again.
~ Peter Høeg