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Quotes About Intimacy

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
~ Teresa Mummert
Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?
~ Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
~ Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
~ Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
~ Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
~ Zhang Ziyi
Friendship is the start for what you call love.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
~ Alan Watts
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
~ Albert Camus
I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
~ Andy Rooney
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Love goes toward love.
~ William Shakespeare
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
~ Anais Nin
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
~ Angela Carter
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
~ Dante Alighieri
Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.
~ Erich Fromm
I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I see love as an evolution of true friendship.
~ Robert Pattinson
if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
~ Robin Hobb
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
~ Rose Tremain