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Quotes About Intimacy

The fundamental truth of my life whether in fact it was truth or a burlesque of truth: when a man wants you, you're safe.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
SO RISKY, to love another person! Like flaying your own, outermost skin. Exposed to the crude air and every kind of infection.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A man is fearful of lonely in a woman
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It is very hard to prevail in any case but without this love, it is close to impossible.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The curiosity of the book was that, as you held it, and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing, which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook, you stored it, or deleted it; you felt no sentiment or particular ownership.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Aún resuena en su interior, en lo más hondo de su matriz, el oscuro placer de la penetración. Como un lamento.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The wife felt the rebuke. For some rebukes are husbandly.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Você tem o desejo de pôr a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem dúvida que deseja pôr a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na própria cama.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
loving him more than her life, her life she'd have tossed into the air confident he'd catch it, yes and
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In love there are two things—bodies and words.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
the terrible intimacy of pregnancy
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The curiosity of the book was that,as you held it,and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing,which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook,you stored it,or deleted it;you felt no sentiment or particular ownership. You could not see it on a shelf or a table,you could not admire its design. In effect,it had been Deleted.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Sleeping with another person is a responsibility, a trust: you must not intrude into the other's dreaming.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I stand before you, naked as clear water. To be with you, in blood and soul into your fire storm. Even at your darkest when your heart is a Black Forest, I stand with commitment .
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Some of the girls with steady boyfriends even hinted at or informed their boyfriends they were having their periods. Marianne couldn't imagine such openness, such intimacy. She'd never been that close to any boy, had had countless friends who were boys, yet few boyfriends with all that implied of specialness, possessiveness. Sharing secrets. No, not even her brothers, not even Patrick she adored.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The real drug, I came to believe, was love.
~ Joyce Maynard
Sex is a drug, Eleanor had told me. When sex enters into a situation, people lose all reason. They do things they would never do otherwise. These things they do may be crazy. May even be dangerous. May break their hearts, or someone else's... The real drug, I came to believe, was love.
~ Joyce Maynard
How does it happen that a person with whom you have shared your most intimate moments—greatest love, greatest pain, joy, also grief—can become a stranger?
~ Joyce Maynard
Many people want guidance from God, but they don't want to lay aside other things in order to hear His voice. But David narrowed down everything he wanted to just one thing—more of God all the days of his life. I believe the only thing that truly satisfies the longing within us is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.
~ Joyce Meyer
Great relationships are one of the most precious treasures in life, but we must feed them regularly by putting time into them. If you find you have no time to develop and maintain strong, intimate relationships with God, with yourself, and with your family and friends, then you are absolutely too busy.
~ Joyce Meyer
The Lord is not just our problem solver; He is our everything, and we need to relate to Him that way. "Now
~ Joyce Meyer
Yes, we can hear from God in a personal, intimate way. The depth of our personal relationship with God is based on intimate communication with Him. He speaks to us so that we are guided, refreshed, restored, and renewed regularly.
~ Joyce Meyer
God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately.
~ Joyce Meyer