Quotes About Intimacy

I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!

I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

I look at you Across those fires and the dark.

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.

Two cures for love 1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter. 2. The easy way: Get to know him better.

Life does not get better so long as we avoid the pain that spurs us to evolve. We do not develop emotionally, because we block out our feelings rather than bear them. We cannot become fluent in intimacy, because we keep ourselves hidden. We do not become confident, because we duck challenges rather than do the kind of work that instills self-worth. There are no shortcuts to life's bounty.

Finding time alone with porn and searching out porn that "does the trick" drains time, attention, and energy that might otherwise be spent in social activities or with an intimate partner. Simon,

let get too close.

Still others observe that women are particularly interested in seeing come-shots because men's ejaculations are generally hidden from them. In "normal" sex, women never see men come. To some of them, it may be as seductively elusive as the glimpse of a breast or lace panties is to a pubescent boy. In this context, the come-shot can be interpreted as almost romantic: The woman wishes to share in her lover's orgasm.

People in the industry kept telling me intimate and unsolicited details about their sex lives. I realized that pornography was as much an attitude or lifestyle as it was a business. The line between private and public was sometimes blurred to the point of being erased.

Once Thorne woke with his hand on Kris's hip, his fingers caressing up and down the curve at the top of his buttock. He cupped it protectively and fell back to sleep.

I have had lovers look at me many ways," Malory observed. "But never the way you're looking at me now." "How"? "As if you are dreaming awake.

I was on the verge of bursting. His fingers trailed down my arm, over my chest and stomach, then down down down… …and set me free.

His body surged at that need to protect. To care for. To love. He wanted to bond him. It had been coming on for days, more than attraction and desire, more than lust. Thorne wanted Kris by his side, in his arms, melded to every cell of his body. All the time. It had only been one week but he knew. His body knew. His dreams knew.

The sweetest I've ever experienced. The very air of you," he said. "I must—must-

This is becoming our great modern divide, his commitment problem and her hang-up problem. These two problems have emerged together for a reason. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit.

Failure to sleep with someone is now an act of hostility, whereas it was once understood to be part of the natural process of searching for one's mate.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Not to be betrayed, be your wife's lover.