Quotes About Intimacy

Meanwhile, Jack's intimate life remained confined to his mother.

Something about this deep domesticity and respectability pleased Washington, who was never cut out for a gallivanting, footloose life. Martha gave him a secure, happy base for the myriad activities of a busy career. She was his dear companion, trusted adviser, and confidante long after lust faded, and they delighted in each other's company.

The intimacy of this group of nationalists allowed the talks to range far beyond commercial disputes to a richer, more trenchant critique of the crumbling Articles of Confederation.

In the last analysis, the durable bond formed between Hamilton and Washington during the Revolution was based less on personal intimacy than on shared experiences of danger and despair and common hopes for America's future

He stared into his eyes

She confided in John, felt a peaceful glow in his presence, and he responded with deep compassion.

I know," I said. "You already don't respect me because you saw me naked.

And most people stick to underwear from their country of origin." "Do they?" "As a general rule. It's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And an intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

chest, pressing damp cotton against her skin, the ball of his thumb down in her cleavage. Not a tender gesture.

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

It's never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life.

I'd lived years without a woman to tell me small things. Her work went well and she wanted to say so, and I was the man who was listening. That fact swung open and light came in.

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

She comforts my spirit and body as nothing ever has. That's a part of love, too. I also know I'm never as happy as I am when I'm with her.

You feel like butter, he whispered, and velvet.

Though little had actually happened to Susannah the car smelled of lovemaking.

This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams. These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

Why does the benefactor love the recipient more than the recipient loves the benefactor? Because the benefactor lives in the recipient, the way in which the poet lives in the poem.

every day with you? Come on

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.