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Quotes About Intimacy

What does your vagina smell like?' ANSWER: 'My husband's face.
~ Eve Ensler
Wanting to fall in love and being totally unable to trust, hungering for connection and always finding it claustrophobic.
~ Eve Ensler
When we make love, it's going to be making love. I want more than just your amazing body, Autumn. I want all of you." She felt him swallow against the top of her head. "I don't know who broke your heart, but I'm going to earn your trust. And we will make love.
~ Evelyn Adams
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
~ Evelyn Waugh
any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.
~ Evelyn Waugh
As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone's life, but towards the end of that week Sebastian said rather sourly: "You and mummy seem very thick," and I realized that in fact I was being drawn into intimacy by swift, imperceptible stages, for she was impatient of any human relationship that fell short of it.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire. Here she and I, who were never friends before, met on terms of long and unbroken intimacy
~ Evelyn Waugh
He did not fail in love, but his lost his joy of it, for I was no longer part of his solitude. As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.
~ Evelyn Waugh
If you live with a man you come to know the other woman he has loved.
~ Evelyn Waugh
How good it is to sit in the shade and talk of love
~ Evelyn Waugh
I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
And in that instant her eyes were brimming and she was not aware that she was voicing an illusion. Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely--taking almost a delight in the thrust. Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Actually that's my secret — I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah, she cried, you look so cool. Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald