Quotes About Intimacy

The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.

At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat—that was the difference between them.

For all his worldliness he was shocked. He was afraid she was becoming corrupted. He had only to suggest she lift her hips a fraction higher or arch her back rather more sharply for her to comply at once. She began to add certain embellishments of her own. On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder.

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

Dating sounds so artificial--how could you get to know someone that way? We insisted: love is more than mystery, and romance can survive intimacy.

I wondered if I'd ever be so lucky to have a girlfriend I'd grow old with, a girlfriend who knew my secrets, my fears, my hopes-- and loved me anyway.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

She gazed up at his face, ran her fingers along his unshaven cheeks. "I missed you." He pulled her into his arms. She relaxed into him and let him hold her. She could feel the rhythm of his heart and pressed her lips against the soft cotton T-shirt that covered his chest. "I missed you," she whispered again. He stepped back for a moment, holding her at arm's length. "I missed you, too.

Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Whatever the reason, I never could be bothered with any boy that did not stop my world. But Sam. He stopped it indeed.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

I love you, Reynard Boulton," she said, gazing into his eyes. "I promise to love you with all my heart and to stay by you and encourage and strengthen you... to be truthful and faithful and kind to you, to always think the best of you... and to share my hopes and decisions and joys with you, in good times and in bad. I will be your compass, your helpmate, your defender, and the keeper of your heart. I will love you as long as there is breath in my body... and beyond even that.

When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves your thoughts. When you're apart, you want to be with him. When you're together, you're conscious of every move he makes, every word he says, and every breath he takes. Just the sight of him makes your heart rae and your mouth go dry. And when he touches you, the rest of the world disappears.

I shoved my feet under the sheets and against her thigh until she fell off the bed onto the floor. That was another thing she had taught me: that when you love someone, you must jokingly mistreat them, just a little. It makes it easier when you leave them, or they die.

Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

Masturbation is the ongoing love affair that each of us has with ourselves throughout our lifetime.