Quotes About Intimacy

Sex, Emma thought. It curdled the mind and turned one into a drooling idiot. She had firsthand knowledge.

It wasn't marriage per se that mattered to me but rather a life with Guy, and therefore I wasn't in need of a big production to kick it off.

Let's leave it for tonight. Is it a decent hour for two middle-aged people to go to bed?' He held out his hand for her. Half an hour later he exclaimed, 'My God, where did you learn that?' 'I read a book once,' she answered. 'Thank God for literate women,' he said fervently.

and just when I was ready to hit him, he'd laugh in that way of his to let me know he loved me. And he made me a better man.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

I've always thought that the supreme relationship is the one between mother and child, and the bond of mothers and sons can be devastatingly intimate like no other relationship on earth.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

I love you," I murmur into his neck. "I love you." "I love you, too," he breathes into the curls over my ears. I don't even notice when the letters in PROGRESS burst into hot blue flame.

Usually her reserve kept people -- men especially -- at a distance, but Sam was different. She felt at ease with him, comfortable. More herself. How was it possible to be more yourself when you were with another person?

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Ttheology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Me sentía vivir en ella, y ella vivía solo para mí. Su sonrisa me llenaba de una beatitud infinita; la ondulación de su voz, tan dulce y, sin embargo, tan firmemente timbrada, me hacía vibrar de alegría y de amor.

Love has no logos.

If you want a woman to be sprightly in bed, you must leave her a margin of fun.

He wanted to possess not the body but the soul of that woman; and to possess her entire soul, with all her tenderness, all her joys, all her fears, all her anguish, all her dreams, in other words, the entire lief of her soul; and to be able to say: I am the life of her life.

You will never known the extent to which my soul is yours.

She loved only her lover and Iphigenia in the narrowness of her cold breast.

He followed the glances of some of them like a ray of love directed at a woman seated somewhere, engrossed in her own thoughts, made languorous by secret delights and softened in some impure way, with a snow-white face in which her mouth opened like a hive damp with honey.

Maybe our fear of intimacy is rooted in our fear of the dark, especially the deep dark within, the great unknown. We perceive our inner darkness as a void, an emptiness that fills us with anxiety. We try to stuff this black hole instead of realizing that we are the black hole and that its emptiness is actually a fathomless freedom.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.