Quotes About Intimacy
We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Love, then, must
~ Thomas Merton
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I need my heart to be moved by you.
~ Thomas Merton
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Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.
~ Thomas Moore
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The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.
~ Thomas Moore
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A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.
~ Thomas Moore
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as 'pretty'… but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Shit now is the color white folks are afraid of. Shit is the presence of death, not some abstract-arty character with a scythe but the stiff and rotting corpse inside the whiteman's warm and private own asshole, which is getting pretty intimate. That's what the toilet is for. You see many brown toilets? Nope, toilet's the color of gravestones, classical columns of mausoleums, that white emblems the very emblem of Odorless and Official death.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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She told him later that as soon as he took her wrist that night, she came. And the first time he touched her cunt, squeezed Jessica's soft cunt through her knickers, the trembling began again high in her thighs, growing, taking her over. She came twice before cock was ever officially put inside cunt, and this is important to both of them though neither has figured out why, exactly.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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How's that, Motella." "Ooh, like wondering how it must be, getting into bed with somebody, who has another person's name? tattooed on his body?" "No problem unless all you do in bed is read," muttered Lourdes.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Together they are a long skin interface, flowing sweat, close as muscles and bones can press, hardly a word beyond her name, or his.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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They talked in the car always, he trying to find the key to her own ignition behind the hooded eyes, she sitting back of the right-hand steering wheel and talking, talking, nothing but MG-words, inanimate-words he couldn't really talk back at. Soon
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Roger's heart grows erect, and comes. That's really how it feels. Up sharply to skin level in a V around his centerline, washing over his nipples... it is love, it is amazing.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Love is love. It shows up in strange displacement.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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Poetry has to be as hasty and rough as eating, sleep or sex.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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She watches Marvy's face as he pays Monika, watches him in this primal American act, paying, more deeply himself than when coming, or asleep, or maybe even dying.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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he reached out and took her hand, overcome by a shocking tenderness. For a moment he was struck dumb at a habit of hers he saw now for the first time, how whenever she looked up from whatever she was doing, even unwrapping a sandwich in the front seat of a car, she always looked up smiling. He wondered if anybody had ever noticed it before.
~ Thomas Savage
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And it seemed to her that kisses, voices, tinkling spoons, laughter, the smell of crushed grass were somehow inside her.
~ Katherine Mansfield
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Last night I spent in her arms - and tonight I hate her - which being interpreted, means that I adore her; that I cannot lie in my bed and not feel the magic of her body. I feel more powerfully all those so-termed sexual impulses with her than I have with any man. She enthrals, enslaves me - and her personal self - her body absolute - is my worship.
~ Katherine Mansfield
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We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee.
~ Katherine Mansfield
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A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella. They stop on the door to press their wet cheeks together.
~ Katherine Mansfield
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I have faded into the habit of secretly existing under your skin. It is unbelievably dark under there; I am happy.
~ Katherine Mansfield
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