Quotes About Intimacy

He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.

Werner hears Marie-Laure inhale, Marie-Laure hears Werner scrape three fingernails across the wood, a sound not unlike the sound of a record coursing beneath the surface of a needle, their faces an arm's reach apart. He says, "Es-tu là?

The air between them seemed to accumulate energy.

Time slows. The attic disappears. Jutta disappears. Has anyone ever spoken so intimately about the very things Werner is most curious about? Open

If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything.

If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything.

To really touch something, is to love it.

husband, a certain thought ringing like a bell calling

But he was afraid to speak. He could see that speaking would be like dashing some very fragile bond to pieces, like kicking a dandelion gone to seed; the wispy, tenuous sphere of its body would scatter in the wind. So instead they stood together, the snow fluttering down from the clouds to melt into the water where their own reflected images trembled like two people trapped against the glass of a parallel world, and he reached, finally, to take her hand.

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La comunicación de los sentimientos, además, no es en sí ni por sí misma suficiente para la intimidad. En la medida en que tal comunicación está ligada con el narcisismo, se trata de una oferta de poder más que de una contribución al desarrollo del amor confluente.

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.

But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women's secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.

Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.' 'I'm interested you put them in that order...

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said.

They had an open marriage. Sex was no big deal. I wouldn't be surprised if Charles didn't get off watching this. The two of them were as bad as each other.

Isn't that how marriage works? The days go by and you settle into a routine and piece by piece everything is taken away from you until there are two complete strangers sitting in the same room.

She's the only line of continuity running through the haphazardness of my life, even though there are times when I'm not even sure if I really know her.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.