Quotes About Intimacy

The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves and shows himself for what he truly is.

Even though Anne was almost ten years younger than I was, at times I almost had the inclination to tell her things that were very private. I know that she valued hearing about such intimacies. She asked me very personal questions on a number of occasions. I resisted telling her everything because I knew she was keeping a diary and I didn't want her to write about personal matters, which I might have revealed.

Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.

To be naked is to be without disguises.

Your lips, beloved, taste like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue.

Two is company. Three is poor birth control.

You don't have to know how to read or write When you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight You don't have to look in a book to find What he thinks of the moon or what is on his mind

With the decline or disappearance of other powers, the priest, even though appearing so intimately integrated into the life of society, has become a more singular and unclassifiable being than any of those old magicians the ancient world used to keep locked up like sacred animals in the depths of its temples, existing in the intimacy of the gods alone.

I cannot come to thee but by thee, I never come from thee without thee

Did Mari Carmen's "secret" intimate conversation with Leslie influence Leslie's grand jury testimony the next day, Wednesday, November 15th? Leslie was the first witness. Her account was lucid and straightforward at moments, hedging and reticent at others, and occasionally, fractured and jumbled. Was she trying to please whoever was questioning her? Or was she responding to someone who had talked to her last night or last month?

Whenever Leslie wanted to talk about something else: basketball practice drills, vacationing in the Bahamas, Mari Carmen rerouted Leslie back to sex, the ultimate destination being March 1, 1989. To keep Mari as a friend, Leslie had to generate more and more sexual juice. When Leslie ran out of sexual anecedotes (truth or fable was anybody's guess), Mari would yawn audibly and end the conversation.

What was love but a lifetime of conversations. And silences. Knowing when to be silent. Above all, knowing when to laugh.

one thing she's learnt is that falling hopelessly, helplessly in love is actually a highly selective process

He pointed out that the mattress in the master boudoir was handspring with each spring wrapped in cashmere It's like sleeping on air, Miss Williams, he said as he showed her the suite's 'menu of pillows' on a silver-embossed card As if she was the kind of woman who'd amputate her aspirations to become one of his decorative appendages She had to politely extricate herself from his intentions without jeopardizing the business

when things were good, Dominique felt the headiness of a love that really might last for ever when they weren't, she wondered what she was doing with someone who wanted to micro-manage her entire life, including her mind

I've fallen in love properly for the first time in my life with the most wonderful woman I've ever met, who desires me from a position of inner strength, Amma, and it might sound odd but that's so new to me and darned sexy, like she can rip my clothes off whenever she wants to (which she does) and I feel helpless and dominated (which I like), whereas my previous lovers desired me from a position of weakness, of adoration, which just isn't interesting to me any more

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved

Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?

She giggles at the thought and realizes quite suddenly that Donovan is religion to her.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with God. Speak with familiarity and confidence as to your dearest and most loving friend. Speak of your life, your plans, your troubles, your joys, your fears. In return, God will speak to you— not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart."1 —St. Alphonsus de'Liguori (1696–1797)

I don't trust him, you see we're friends.

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love