Quotes About Intimacy

Except Allyson doesn't know about Saba (yet) or about kishkes (officially speaking, though she knows what they are and how to listen to them and she will never ever stop doing this). And she doesn't have the words to tell Willem what she needs to tell him. So she doesn't use words. She licks her thumb and rubs it against he wrist. Stained. Willem grabs her wrist, rubs his own thumb against it. Does the same to his own wrist, just to make it clear. Stained.

And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.

You're a total freak. But you're my freak.

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears." Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices.

I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices. I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

Esta noche no la besaré. O tocaré. O la veré de cerca. Esta noche escucharé. Y eso será suficiente

I kiss Allyson. I complete the history that came before us, and in doing so, begin one all of our own. Double happiness: I get it now.

I'd actually rather go off with my family. This is another thing you don't advertise about yourself,

Nos besamos otra vez. Ese beso siguiente es del tipo que rompe el cielo. Te roba el aliento y te lo devuelve. Eso me demuestra que cada otro beso que había tenido en mi vida, había sido un error.

Porque de pronto, quiero escuchar sus huesos crujir. Quiero sentir la suavidad que ofrece su carne, escuchar su grito de asombro mientras el hueso de mi cadera se estrella contra ella. Quiero tirar su cabeza hacia atrás hasta que su cuello está expuesto. Quiero rasgar mis manos por su cabello hasta que su respiración sea entrecortada. Quiero hacerla llorar y lamer sus lágrimas. Y luego quiero llevar mi boca a la de ella, devorarla en vida....

Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorrió mi cuerpo aquella noche, cuando me dejó en casa después del concierto y me besó una vez más en la puerta. Lo sabía porque me quedé despierta hasta el amanecer abrazada a la almohada. Porque no puede comer al día siguiente, ni borrarme la sonrisa de la cara.

Mi mano tiembla cuando la acerco a mi boca. Lamo mi pulgar y lo froto contra mi muñeca, en contra de mi marca de nacimiento. Entonces froto nuevamente. Miro hacia arriba, justo a sus ojos, que son tan oscuros como la noche que no quiero que termine. La cara de Willem vacila por un momento, luego se vuelve solemne, como lo hizo después de que nos persiguieran. Entonces él se acerca y roza mi marca de nacimiento. No sale, es lo que me está diciendo.

I've never seen anyone cry like this. Quiet but gushing, a faucet behind his eyes mysteriously turned on.

kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly

The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.)

Complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way is a good way to describe it. But maybe that's just how love is.

Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.

who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

I pull her to me. A thousand suns rise from my chest.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love... This is being in love. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.

When I was with him, I felt like I already knew him

And then I went to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can't understand.

even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point