Quotes About Intimacy

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.

Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don't believe that some women could live by love alone.

cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Yossarian was in love with the maid in the lime-colored panties because she seemed to be the only woman left he could make love to without falling in love with.

She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep.

They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. Cronies

They recognized from the beginning that they were a rare match. There were so many topics they could talk about easily and just as many things they did not have to talk about at all.

This is what true love is about, the Rebbe told Sharfstein. "It's the small acts that you do on a daily basis that turn two people from a 'you and I' into an 'us'.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

I think it's a little presumptuous on his part to think that I would want to talk to him anyway. I mean, sure, I went home with him, probably slept with him, ate breakfast with him, and wore his clothes to work the next day. None of this I see as necessarily flirtatious on my part.

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

You think we're dancing? That's all we've ever done.

Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.

Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.

We get frantic in our loving. The distance between Santa Fe and Albuquerque shifts and changes. It is moments; it is years. I am next to you in skin and blood and then I am not. I tremble and grasp at the edges of myself; I let go into you.

Sometimes it is like facing the dreamer who knows the you of blood and stars—

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Because I am in love. Love is a slow bleed.

As if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.

There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with.

HUSBAND: Is something wrong? BETHIE: Why--why do you ask? HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.

I don't want anything from you but the fact of you.