Quotes About Intimacy

If reality is what looms, love is what pervades...

For every book here she had heard their voices, father's and mother's. And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.

MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor.

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt...He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

Your arms, so wonderful! When I die, come embrace me, But take off your sweater first.

The only thing holding people back from starting a relationship is failure to overcome hesitation.

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.

I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever.

His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke her thighs: he wanted to sing songs for her, dance dances for her, write poems for her.

For Juliana comes, and she, what I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

You could probably tell more from her discarded dental floss. At least I would know what she had for dinner, her dental health, and possibly the DNA of the last person she kissed.

Dear Lazarus! I agree with you entirely that it is best for me to go with you, for only in your company do I enjoy myself most completely…. I kiss you warmly and am, as always, your ever-loving Babette Morgenthau

On screen, sparks flew between Rachel and Mike, enthralling viewers, especially after the second-season finale, which climaxed with their characters having heated sex in the fictional law firm's file room. Fans had become really invested in the fictional

Little lies are unfortunately what keeps most marriages together these days. I'm just exhausted from the effort to come up with new ones, I guess.

Why was it a stranger could look at me and immediately see me, but my husband of nearly twenty years could barely see me standing in front of him most of the time? Do we eventually wear each other, put on each other like a pair of old gloves, hardly noticing what we're doing because we've done it so often?

Surely, I thought, there is something magical about someone who was on the same wavelength as you were, feeling the way you felt when you felt it. Anticipating correctly was the best love song any girl could want. It meant you cared enough to think hard about someone else beside yourself. And I'm sorry, but you could count on your fingers how many like that you knew your whole life.

We need to talk." she says. "The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.

And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I've never known with either man or woman since childhood, and perhaps not even then.

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.

He kisses--how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.

So many people will do. But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior