Quotes About Intimacy

Jack is tall and kind and don't hardly say anything. Love children. Respect his wife, Odessa, and all Odessa amazon sisters. Anything she want to take on, he right there. Never talking much, though. That's the main thing. And then I remember one time he touch me. And it felt like his fingers had eyes. Felt like he knew me all over, but he just touch my arm up near the shoulder.

Cause she the only one you ever love, she say, sides me.

You better not never tell nobody but god.

No solo éramos invertidos, éramos inversiones el uno del otro

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Again, she may have made the equation that sexual involvement was inextricably linked with death.

She loved the intimacy of making music together in private.

She saw Henry look hungrily into Anne's face as they met in the dance. And in that moment she knew.

They lay together where they fell, and it was sweet and it was surprising, like waking up together in bed.

He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.

Who'll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who'll look into my hooded eye Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh?

me being no one in the air nothing but clouds in the moonlight with humans fucking underneath… .

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

Your eyes are wide open. I feel as though I could step inside them and make myself at home.

He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

I had been much more in love with my wife than she with me, that was all. Somehow, you were supposed to be ashamed of this, as though love were a perpetual jostling for the roles of pursuer and pursued. As if it didn't take more courage to admit that someone held your hopes of happiness in their hands. As if it were a choice.

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

She lifts her face in just such a way when she makes one of her playful comments that I am seized with an overwhelming urge to kiss her. Not that I would give in to such an impulse, but it is there all the same.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ah, that we could fall into women's arms without falling into their hands.

ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.