Quotes About Intimacy

because those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.

He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

He did not look at her. He did not need to. Over the years she had built a special palace of the mind for him, and he had helped lay every brick. Now he could feel its golden walls tumbling. If he looked into her face, he would see hurt, bewilderment and the painful, necessary birth of doubt.

She's one of my best friends, thought Neverfell, and most of the time I don't know what is going on in her head at all.

The low road and the sea always flirted with each other, and today they were particularly passionate.

He brushed a fingertip over his lips and signalled across the room. "Now I'm going to take you home." But it meant something else, too. Grania's cheeks reddened furiously when he made this public-private display, though no one else had noticed.

It turns out that when two people are in love, it's possible to say those three little words - 'I love you' - without actually saying them at all.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

You are in my blood. I can't help it. We can't be anywhere except together.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

The word 'romance ' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.

I have been asked the question, "Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.

It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

And you're the only one who knows.

The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.

Who would have known That a boy like him Would have entered me lightly Restoring my blisses Who would have known That a boy like him After sharing my core Would stay going nowhere

From the purely selfish standard, every fresh tie we form means giving a new hostage to fortune, and adding a new risk to our happiness. Apart from any moral evil, every intimacy is a danger of another blow to the heart. But if we desire fulness of life, we cannot help ourselves.

It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly physical relationship. And why do I assume it would be a bad thing? Maybe it's better with someone different from you. I could teach her how fluorocarbons affect the ozone. She could teach me about oral sex. We would both become better people.