Quotes About Intimacy

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Love is more cruel than lust.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

We live to love you more each day.

Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.