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Quotes About Intimacy

He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren't there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife.
~ Terry Goodkind
There is more to being in love than just jumping into bed, you know. Like just being close, in one another's arms.
~ Terry Goodkind
Come to me, my love. I want you very badly right now." He nodded and started to reach for the Agiel on the side table. Denna touched his wrist. "Tonight, I want you without the Agiel. Please? Teach me what it's like without the pain?
~ Terry Goodkind
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
~ Terry Pratchett
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
~ Terry Pratchett
Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot.
~ Terry Pratchett
They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.
~ Terry Pratchett
Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--
~ Terry Pratchett
The really odd thing about human sex, though, was the way it went on even when people were fully clothed and sitting on opposite sides of a fire. It was in the things they said and did not say, the way they looked at one another and looked away.
~ Terry Pratchett
Not everything is meant for all to hear.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Can you ever really know a person?
~ Tess Gerritsen
We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli
~ Tess Gerritsen
If I had just one day to relive, I would spend every minute of it with you. Holding you in bed. Whispering secrets beneath warm sheets.
~ Tess Gerritsen
No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain.
~ Tess Gerritsen
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
You cannot love properly and deeply without mindfulness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
~ Theodor Adorno
She leaned over and kissed Carmilla, evidently meaning to kiss her cheek, but at the last moment Carmilla turned her head an they kissed each other on the lips. Laura laughed. It startled Mary - what was the relationship between these two women?
~ Theodora Goss
No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
She only basked in the warmth of his feeling, which was as a grateful blaze to one who is cold.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Love makes me naked; Propinquity's a harsh master; O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!
~ Theodore Roethke
She loved the wind because the wind loved me.
~ Theodore Roethke