Quotes About Intimacy

Wait." He stepped closer. "Listen to me, Scillara." And then he was silent, on his face a war of feelings trying to find words.

To lie with a lover was to celebrate the creation of fire. From this in the flesh to the world beyond.

Tattersail loved the man. As a friend, of course. Nothing serious, nothing frightening in the love for a friend.

Well, everyone had his secrets. And few are worth sharing. Unless you enjoy losing friends.

They'd needed each other, and though thereafter they rarely spoke of that night – the only one they had shared – she had once commented, in a private moment, that she'd drunk so much to find the courage to invite him to lie with her.

She felt his eyes exploring her like ghost hands.

She drew him round and settled against him, murmered 'If there is to be a conversation, keep it short, please. What I desire is not answered by words.' Korlat to Whiskeyjack

I have explained to him that most of what we call courting boils down to just being there. Every time you turn, you see him, until his company feels perfectly natural to you. "Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want." -Draconus

Sex is the glue that holds society together.

Indeed, there is only one reason for us to take up the challenge of relationship, but it is a compelling one -- we must fully relate if we are to fully live.

An Elegy, Years After Sarah" So her ceiling a map of stars. First time we made love late afternoon late winter, and after she slept how her room fogged up with dusk and paper stars she'd stuck up there in childhood came out in strange constellations and I missed the earth till her room was night her breath deepening the stars cooling down: I said come closer and her eyes — half-open, flashing back whatever light there was — went out.

and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.

People don't want to be loved, they want to feel loved.

We want the benefits of intimacy without the risks of transparency. So our lives are always made up of games of hide-and-seek. We want to be found and yet we want to hide from the consequences of being found. Intimacy is the license that you give to someone else to hurt you the most.

Betrayal is a facet of love.

want the benefits of intimacy without the risks of transparency. So our lives are always made up of games of hide-and-seek. We want to be found and yet we want to hide from the consequences of being found. Intimacy is the license that you give to someone else to hurt you the most.

It would be like trying to make love to your wife, knowing she was simultaneously making love to six other people!

Reader, I'd marry her.

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

My partner had made perhaps ten strokes before the sap rose within him and he fell upon my back, smothering me like a collapsing building.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.