Quotes About Intimacy

Lin, a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about.

we spoke to none but the few we trusted with our wounded lives.

She saw me, and smiled. Those things inside, when the woman you love smiles at you: those spears of courage, that rain.

But you don't get the blues, ever?' she asked. She was so earnest that I wanted to put my arm around her.

I felt myself reddening slightly, not from embarrassment, but from shame, that she'd said so easily the very words, I like you, that I wouldn't let myself say to her.

I was hers. She was mine. My body was her chariot, and she drove it into the sun. Her body was my river, and I became the sea.

the promise to "forsake all others" includes all those entanglements, friendships, family-of-origin commitments, career opportunities, and community involvements that do not serve to increase either the physical and mental health of each spouse or the intimacy of the marriage.

The truth is that the Catholic Church celebrates and esteems sex more than any other faith. By exploring what authentic Catholic tradition holds about human sexuality, any husband and wife can experience sex as God intended it to be experienced — an eye-popping, toe-curling, life-giving, profoundly sacred, and deeply spiritual union of one divinized human person with another.

but for now, it is important to know that any time a husband and wife contracept, they are saying to each other, "I just want the parts of you that make me feel good; I don't want the parts of you that make me commit to you for life and enable us to celebrate a love so powerful it could become its own life." That

In order for your marriage to become that great love story there are certain things you need to establish in your early years together because relationships tend to build and grow on precedent.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him Yero, my hero, and that melted his heart.

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

I love being in a small club where everybody has a good seat, and we don't look like ants. And you can feel the audience, which makes it kind of magical, and I miss that. I guess I have the best of both worlds.

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.

In my entire life, I have ten people that are the closest people to me. They're my family, and I really don't mesh worlds that often.

The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.

I feel the sexiest in my husband's t-shirts, especially after he's worn it all day.

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.

For me personally, I was just worried that transitioning from a podcast, which is a very intimate sort of experience - people tell me they listen to my podcast while they're at the gym or on road trips, so you're in someone's ear - to being on television - that's a lot of space to fill.

Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.