Quotes About Intimacy

For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.

Of the three of us, I alone was allowed to enter Amma's bedroom and watch her get dressed for special occasions. It was an experience I considered almost religious, for, even though I adored the goddesses of the local cinema, Amma was the final statement in female beauty for me.

Not only was I embarrassed, frankly, I became offended, not to mention deeply ashamed. A nervousness entered my body and I thought for a moment that I was going to cry. After all, I had never seen that part of a grown man's anatomy, and I suddenly found myself thinking about all the males in my family.

how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.

Maybe that's all there is to it: language, how we employ it to know someone, or love them more deeply.

But there is one key ingredient that my wife has helped me to recognize over the years, and that is the importance of articulating love for one another on a daily basis. The words I love you, spoken in acknowledgment in the morning upon rising and before going to bed, or when sitting down to dine, make the most beautiful music recognized by human ears.

One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

Those pleasures so lightly called physical.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.

Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.

turned and cupped Dash's face. He almost never kissed men, especially ones he'd hired, but this time he wanted to. "Do you kiss?" Dash smiled. "I love to, but I'd figured you for the type who didn't." "I don't," Thorne said and kissed him.

Oh, darling," Niall purred. "You know I'm too shy to wear those little bitty suits." "You would do it for me, though, wouldn't you?" I made my eyes huge and pushed out my lower lip. If I didn't already sleep with a gun under my pillow and a knife under the mattress, I sure as hell would have to now. Niall would try to kill me. I had no doubt.

I realized I haven't even been thinking about stopping and starting at all. It's just like we are who we are with each other, and part of that is Daddy and boy.

Then please, Daddy, take me to the farm so we can have a sex retreat.

It is so overwhelming to be loved exclusively.

It was a fruit relationship, perhaps symbolizing sex.

I'm glad it was Dylan who laughed first. Once he did I felt myself unravel. I giggled and he giggled. We were the experiment. And then there came a time when we weren't laughing. When we locked eyes and breathed each other's breath. Ohmystars! The firmament shakes and then everything settles. In the end everything settles.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years

and sprang well from her bed." Helena

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?" "You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people.