Quotes About Intimacy

One kiss, he told himself. Just one easy, quick kiss. He had plenty of control. He could control his temper, his hunger, his … Her mouth opened under his and she met his kiss with shy, sweet hesitation. Remy felt like the very ground had crumbled under his feet. Oh, hell.

He wondered if she'd been waiting all these nights to come because she hadn't had a nightgown. He started to ask her. But there was something—she had her hair pinned back and she was studying her own hands—that changed his mind. She seemed small and fragile again, and for the first time in his life he wanted to hit a woman. It was the bend of the neck that did it. It was so exposed and patient.

That alas is the way it goes; Something we must rectify. Paul, not Caro, would interpret the degree of meaning in their respective lots. That had been decided, as he sat speaking intimately of his life to the person most excluded from it - in order to readmit her to the intimacy, though not the life.

All I want is to be cherished, she thought, and here I am talking gibberish with a selfish man.

They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed.

Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question—as 'Do you love me?'—could never be answered or forgotten.

You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

You can be friendly with someone without being friends. And you can be close friends without being friendly. Anyway, that's my opinion. I'm not asking you what you think.

he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm.

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

According to the prevailing view human sexual life consists essentially in an endeavor to bring one's own genitals into contact with those of someone of the opposite sex.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

The act of eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union.

Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy...

They hold each other tightly for a few moments as the dog, a miniature dachshund, barks and leaps at them.

Philosophy is erotic, not just epistemic.

It wasn't the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn't look. It wasn't the notes, it was the silences between the notes.