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Quotes About Intimacy

They had been married in the Rhodopé Building looking out at the glory of the park. They honeymooned in the same private universe and needed nothing more, neither Venice nor the Hatsheput Temple nor an island in the sun.
~ Salman Rushdie
Her support warmed his heart. He loved his wife. He wondered if it would upset her if he asked her to lose a little weight.
~ Salman Rushdie
Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.
~ Salman Rushdie
Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?
~ Salman Rushdie
It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.
~ Salman Rushdie
It was plain he needed to love and be loved; there was a tide of emotion in him that needed to wash over people and he hoped for a returning tide to wash over him.
~ Salman Rushdie
I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.
~ Joe Namath
I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
~ Rafael Palmeiro
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
~ Alain de Botton
An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.
~ Harriet Lerner
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
~ Meher Baba
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
~ Theodor Adorno
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
~ Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.
~ Kristen Proby
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
~ Cassandra Clare
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
~ Milan Kundera
That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.
~ Diana L. Eck
Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.
~ Cassandra Clare
Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you." - Vane
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
~ Marcel Proust
If I jump out of bed without hugging my husband, that creates stress between us.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Aw... don't be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.
~ Dr Susan Block
The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.
~ Dennis Wilson
Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.
~ Danielle LaPorte