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Quotes About Intimacy

I sat onto the sofa and almost sank into it. I'd need help getting up. Curran sprawled next to me. "This is nice," he said. "Mm-hm." "We should get one for the living room." "We'd get blood on it.
~ Ilona Andrews
They've butted heads for as long as I've known them. She always loves him, but sometimes she also hates him. This is one of those times.
~ Ilona Andrews
Your hand looks heavy. Let me hold it for you." He squeezed my hand with his warm fingers. "Smooth," Jynx murmured.
~ Ilona Andrews
Second among the crimina carnis contra naturam is intercourse sexus homogenii/ where the object of sexual inclination continues, indeed, to be human, but is changed since the sexual congress is not heterogeneous but homogeneous, i.e., when a woman satisfies her impulse on a woman, or a man on a man.
~ Immanuel Kant
Marie Striekwold-Ebben, passed along this piece of wisdom: "Even if you don't have much money, keep in mind that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. Love and sadness are shared under the sheets, and you hope that your children will come into the world in your bedroom and that you will leave the world there.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Un po' più tardi andarono a coricarsi e, nel calore, del letto, assaporarono un amore che non era che l'ombra dell'antico amore, ma che, nutrito dai ricordi del passato, da un'appassionata volontà di oblio, talvolta rifioriva e prendeva vita.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
your eyes quench my thirst.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other-the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift, the very first one, the gift of the soul before the body surrenders
~ Irene Nemirovsky
La strana felicità che provavano…quella fretta di far conoscere il proprio cuore l'uno all'altra…una fretta da amanti che è già un dono, il primo, il dono dell'anima prima di quello del corpo. "Conoscimi, guardami. Io sono così. Ecco come ho vissuto, ecco cosa ho amato. E tu? E tu, amore mio?
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Un'unione dove il cuore non ha voce è una caricatura dell'amore coniugale.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
No one can ever truly know another human being.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Non era il piacere che gli aveva procurato a legarlo così intensamente a lei. Era qualcos'altro, che nasceva in una zona più sottile della carne, più calda dell'anima.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
~ Iris Murdoch
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
~ Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship...
~ Iris Murdoch
I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')
~ Iris Murdoch
Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
~ Iris Murdoch
Encontrar a alguien inagotable es simplemente la definición del amor.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.
~ Iris Murdoch
Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.
~ Iris Murdoch
To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?
~ Iris Murdoch
We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.
~ Iris Murdoch
You can't kiss me and vanish.
~ Iris Murdoch