Quotes About Intimacy

And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage, gushed blood.

A marriage is a very secret place.

As he rose to go and held Louise's hand and gazed at her he felt for a moment his old love for her taking possession of his whole being. They looked at each other. I feed upon this looking, thought Clement, but does she? I don't know, and I cannot ask. I am terrified of saying something which would wound our whole precious relationship. We are well as we are. I love her, that's all, that is my drama.

They had become, year by year, month by month, mysterious to her, her love for them an extended pain, a web or field of force, of which she felt at times the almost breaking tension.

Franca, darling, let's be simple. And move quietly in the dark.

Since he was sixteen, he had been continuously sexually active, either with a girlfriend or through a series of casual flings. From the point of someone like Kibby, he considered, he would be regarded as highly succesful with women. But the real problem is relationships, which fucking social retards like Kibby can't grasp, because they're just so obsessed with getting their hole.

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...

A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.

Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

Es una mierda que las tías te cojan cariño pero sólo en plan amigo. Me pasa constantemente: me veo metido en el papel del tío majo con el que no quieren follar. Me encantaría hacer de hijo de puta al que matan a polvos

Most importantly, we shag at least twice a day. It's proper sex, relaxed and unhurried, no done on the sly.

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

Ah'm sittin in the hotel bar waitin oan Fiona. Thinkin aboot her heart-melting smile and that sexy, concentrated frown when she evaluates books and the comments made by lecturers. Whenever she comes into a room, ma spirits soar. What ah feel is delight, pure and simple. Our life is all passionate kisses and soft wells of laughter. Ah love watchin her in class; even though we're shaggin, it's still great tae just look at her.

They start a tickling fight, laughing hysterically, and then they're necking again. Nicksy registers that his Scottish friend and the Bird With the Big Hair have adopted that arrogant 'look-at-us-we've-just-invented-sex' demeanor of people who're fucking after a long hiatus

Hasta qué punto puede alguien conocer de verdad a cualquier otra persona?

He felt extremely friendly to them all; they too knew what splendid thing it was to be in love.

Have you ever been in love? ...in a way. It's always 'in a way.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

Todo aquello era un gran aliciente en la vida de Harlan. Tenía alguien con quien hablar, alguien con quien podía discutir su vida, sus preocupaciones y sus pensamientos. Era como si ella fuese una parte de él mismo, pero una parte diferente, con la que necesitaba comunicarse hablando, en vez de pensar a solas.

Harlan gazed at Noÿs and his thoughts wound tightly about her. What would she

I've already told you that I don't consider love a sport.

Ils s'embrassèrent longtemps, à pleine bouche, comme consumés par une prière silencieuse au service de l'amour.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.