Quotes About Intimacy

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state. Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we?

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

The Hungarians have a wonderful word,' said Trefusis. 'It is puszipajtás and means roughly someone you know well enough to kiss in the street. They are a demonstrative and affectionate people, the Hungarians, and enthusiastic social kissers. Do you know young Adrian? you might ask and they might reply, I know him, but we're not exactly puszipajtás.

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.

I ask You to pour out Your Holy Spirit on me and Your church. Draw me into a daily, more intimate walk with You. May prayer become as natural to me as breathing, and may You work through my prayers to help bring

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.

Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love.

They said it was going fine and gave him those dazed, fuck-struck smiles of which only newlyweds are capable.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seem limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

This tune is called "What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her. " But it hurts somewhere. In the spaces between people, maybe.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except . . . we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it? I

He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.

I kissed her, just a gentle brush of my lips across hers. It was like swallowing a tiny drop of something incredibly sweet.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

I come to you and you see me whole,' he says. 'You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When the door closes and the world's outside, we're eye to eye.