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Quotes About Intimacy

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
~ Florence Nightingale
Estás enojado conmigo? (Joséphine) - ¿Debería estarlo? (Alamán) - Si. Te traté muy fríamente cuando llegué. - Muy fríamente. - Discúlpame. - ¿Por qué lo hiciste? - Ya te lo dije ayer, en casa. Porque tengo miedo de que me lastimes. - Ya te lo dije ayer, en tu casa: jamás te lastimaría. - Eso dicen todos. - Yo no soy todos.
~ Florencia Bonelli
Ya te he dicho que eres lo único que cuenta en mi vida. Cuando no estoy contigo te pienso tanto que creo que puedes sentirme.
~ Florencia Bonelli
Me la llevo porque la quiero pa'mí. La quiero como mi mujer.
~ Florencia Bonelli
He stands in the street with his arms out to me and a huge grin on his face-Baby! - and I run and I jump up into his arms he presses a stubbly cheek against mine.
~ Flynn Gillian
But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
~ Foer
She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.
~ Foer
In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor - a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses. It is really death to do so - that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily.
~ Ford Madox Ford
But, even with all her differences, Mrs. Basil did not appear to Lenora to differ so very much from herself. She was truthful, honest and, for the rest, just a woman. And Lenora had a vague sort of idea that, to a man, all women are the same after three weeks of close intercourse.
~ Ford Madox Ford
The beastly Huns! They stood between him and Valentine Wannop. If they would go home he could be sitting talking to her for whole afternoons. That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Everyone knows how much I love you All your gestures Have become my gestures
~ Forrest Gander
Within ten minutes of meeting, we'd exchanged love letters from the corners of our eyes.
~ Forrest Gander
Remember when I was lying on your lap and you cleaned my ears with a Q-tip? What a strange, complex intimacy, your at once maternal and sexual tenderness.
~ Forrest Gander
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
~ Francois Mauriac
I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara...looked long and hard at his face. 'Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?' he said... 'No,' she answered. 'I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the other that no sentence could seem wholly impersonal. There are times when the whole world is personal to a mood whose intensity seems a reason for all things. Words are of small moment when the mere sound of a voice makes an unreasonable joy.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
You are inside my heart.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
And they put their arms round each other and kissed as if they would never let each other go.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Are you learning me by heart, little Sara? he said, stroking her hair. No, she answered. I know you by heart. You are inside my heart
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
And kissed her trembling honest mouth almost as if he had been a man—not quite—but almost.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
~ Frances O'Roark Dowell
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block