Quotes About Intimacy

I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.

He is mine, too.

El, I love you so much.

No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.

The tsar was holding her hands against his chest, the ring on his finger gleaming pale silver like the tears running in silver lines down his cheeks; he was gazing down at her with eyes shining jewel-green, as though she were the most beautiful thing in the world.

Oddly enough constantly being on the verge of malnourishment, exhaustion and mortal terror isn't really conductive to romance.

How did you," he said, pushing himself up on an elbow, indignation finally dawning, and I pushed him back down and kissed him.

He looked at me, baffled and for the first time uncertain, as though he had stumbled into something, unprepared. His long narrow hands were cradled around mine, both of us holding the rose together. Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song. I was abruptly too hot, and strangely conscious of myself. I pulled my hands free.

I managed to behave like a human being and hug her back, my throat tight.

Ses longs doigts fins étaient toujours enroulés autour des miens, [...] J'eus soudain beaucoup trop chaud et je fus subitement trop consciente de mon corps. Je retirai mes mains.

The heavy velvet hangings' deep dark closed us in all around, as if we lay inside his walled heart.

Poetry, the most intimate form of expression, gives us a deeper sense of reality than headlines and news stories ever could.

The minute she heard him, she wished they could talk forever.

The sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, including advocates for 'adult' material such as Hugh Hefner and Al Goldstein, represented porn to us as a great social radicalizer. But a nation of masturbating people who are looking at screens rather than at one another - who are consuming sex like any other product and who are rewiring their brains to find less and less abandon and joy in one another's arms, and to bond more and more with pixels - is a subjugated, not a liberated, population.

Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.

When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For many women, the body appears to grow beautiful and erotic as they grow to like the person in it. The actual body, the smell, the feel, the voice and movement, becomes charged with heat through the desirable person who animates it.

An essential paradox of the female condition is that for women to really be free, we have to understand the ways in which nature designed us to be attached to and dependent upon love, connection, intimacy, and the right kind of Eros in the hands of the right kind of man or woman.

sexual response is connected to and in turn generates a larger sense of pleasure, meaning, and interest in the world

Driving all human interaction onto Zoom and other not-always secure platforms was not only a way to harvest all our data, it was a way to ensure (as face-to-face human connection withered and died) that what passes for intimacy and connection in the future will increasingly be online.

There was a campaign to get people to accept that distance was good. Distance was how you showed love.

a love at once so intimate and so charged; to be once more as teenage girls are when they are in love with each other.

It is a very old saying that "a man's wife may either make him or break him," but the reason is not always understood. The "making" and "breaking" is the result of the wife's understanding, or lack of understanding, of the emotions of love, sex, and romance.

Al-most-blue...con due pause in mezzo, due respiri sospesi da cui si capisce, si sente che sta tenendo gli occhi chiusi. Per questo mi piace Almost blue. Perchè è una canzone che si canta ad occhi chiusi.

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.