Quotes About Intimacy

Hello Benjamin." Ben grinned privately. He always loved the way Nikolas greeted him. It seemed to say more than it actually did.

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

What seems a loss of interest is in fact a failure of trust, of shared intimacy.

I laid my head upon her shoulder, and could hardly speak for the comfort that she gave me.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

We should leave our love-making till the dead of night,' she thought. 'And bury it secretly in sleep.

We all wish to protect our loved ones from pain. But part of loving is sharing....Sharing hopes and fears, pain and loss, bodies and minds. Why else love?

You have only to hear my heartbeat to know that each beat is for you.

How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.

Love shouldn't be safe

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

Se parece a enamorarse, saber que acabas de encontrar a tu mejor amiga.

It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

It's like being in love, discovering a best friend.

extremes of affection only to be seen when the mind's a heart.

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

To know for an hour you were mine completely -- Mine in body and soul, my own -- I would bear unending tortures sweetly, With not a murmur and not a moan. A lighter sin or a lesser error Might change through hope or fear divine; But there is no fear, and hell has no terror, To change or alter a love like mine.

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

I want to spend time with you.

You're my heart and soul.

It makes it so much easier to love you.