Quotes About Intimacy

We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you.

Come apart in my mouth.

In language I combine my flesh with yours, and you with mine; my flesh is tender, my skin aches from knowing you

You talk to me in your sleep, the only time you talk to me.

love's the dirtiest thing in the world

I still love you, for I see your soul

I want to be with him in my thoughts; I want to live with him in my mind.

You'll never leave me now. You're mine. Be as I say.

and you breathe on me, as if I were an object, observable malice.

It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .

I want her to love me.

I want to be locked in this situation where he threatens me then tells me je t'aime.

a kiss gives off a swoosh of amnesia

He reached across the table and put both his cold hands on my face. Those hands that had—what did he say?—"opened doors of perception and windows of imagination and broken shackles of anxiety" were soft.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

Men were so grateful, she thought, when it came to sex.

How awe-inspiring to see the beauty of another soul, to love him, and then to be permitted to share in his intimacy, actually to become one with him!

Jesus appears to have walked unstressed and unhurried. His peaceful pace seems to imply that he measured himself not by where he was going and how fast he could get there but by whom he was following and how closely they walked together.

Brother Lawrence, known for his intimacy with God, wrote, "The foundation of spiritual life, for me, has been a high image of God and a high esteem of God."2