Quotes About Intimacy

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

if only I had someone who belonged only to me, and didn't always have to go into other people's homes and share with them; I want someone for my very own.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?

I want to sleep in your bed." Her thighs tingled. "You must really like my mattress." He grinned. I never heard it called that, but yeah.

A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.

Another limit on intimate marriage in the nineteenth century was that many people still held the Enlightenment view that love developed slowly out of admiration, respect, and appreciation of someone's good character. Coupled with the taboos on expressions of sexual desire, these values meant that the love one felt for a sweetheart often was not seen as qualitatively different from the feeling one might have for a sister, a friend, or even an idea.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Heterosexuals often fall into the trap of expecting all their emotional needs to be met by the other person.

Intimacy is not a matter of extending your self-absorption to include someone else. Much more than that, it is a matter of tuning into someone else's reality and risking being changed by that experience.

Clearly the crucial issue in the success of an intimate sexual relationship or very close friendship is not one of sexuality or of gender. More important than either is the conscious willingness of two people or a whole family or community to think about each other with generosity, openness, tolerance and respect, conscious that this counts for something only when it is also translated into behaviours that are routinely respectful, thoughtful and kind.

Intimacy comes alive when you can consciously accept, cope with and even welcome the differences between your inner ideal and the real live person who is sharing your life and perhaps your bed. Someone who is gradually revealed to you with all the surprises, glories, disappointments, human faults and gifts that each of us has in varying measures. And you can accept that. And wish the person well.

You like my kisses - and I like kissing you. Why deny ourselves such innocent pleasure?

My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.

And remembered—all he'd nearly forgotten, all her wild responses had driven from his mind. This was one seduction he had to, needed to, manage perfectly—this time, there was meaning beyond the act. Seducing Patience Debbington was too important to rush—conquering her senses, her body, was only the first step. He didn't want her just once—he wanted her for a lifetime.

he'd slumped beside her. " You can't fear losing me half as much as I fear losing you." It had been a grudging admission; he'd thought her already asleep.

If I took hold of your lower jaw with my smallest fingers resting near your lobes and my thumbs lightly against the start of your ah would I find where you seem to begin?

See what happens when you have sex with a guy and blow him off? It never ends well to break a guy's heart.

It's sexy as hell to see you holding my weapon.

Don't even tell me you're going to pull the old 'we both have to be naked' thing to warm you up, she mumbled.

Love and marriage may go together like a horse and carriage, but it is crucial that the horse of passion quickly be tethered by the weight of the carriage of respectability to prevent runaways.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.