Quotes About Intimacy

Research shows the more intimate the crime, the more people focus on the victim's behavior, and of course, there's no crime more intimate than sexual violence," Archambault says.

Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward to take her hand.

It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

The strongest bonds are of the heart.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

During sex it's perfectly fine to say "YEAH", "YES", and "OH YES", but how awkward would it be if someone kept screaming "YEP"?

A honeymoon is a short period of doting between dating and debting.

Morning sex: proven to be more effective than coffee.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again. "It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.

I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.

Aye. From this day onward…" He hesitated, but before she could worry over his silence, he said, "With you at my side, I shall think love, feel love, breathe love, and embrace love.

Vinden hadde stilnet, og nå, mens luften tyknet og et kobberskarpt lyn fortengte den milde duften av eukalyptus og akasie, mintes hun de første årene av sitt ekteskap. Fortiden tok henne igjen, visket ut nåtiden, og ble så livaktig at det var som om de mellomliggende årene aldri hadde eksistert.

I'll be your friend, Molly Whitcomb, the best friend I know how to be." He caressed the side of her face and traced her lower lip with his thumb. "Until you're ready for me to be something more.

She didn't ask where they were going. She just leaned back and stared up into the dark night sky. He would have been hard-pressed to explain it to anyone, but he'd never felt so much like a man as he did when he was with her. He wanted to protect her, provide for her, make her laugh, love her in every way he could. And he liked that she didn't have to fill every moment with words too.

Once she'd thought him the most handsome man in the world, and the knowledge that most women wouldn't look at him twice only made him more special, as if he was a brilliant artist whose work only she appreciated.

Fling. That's how he saw their night together. She'd been thinking of box-sets with a blanket over their laps and mini-breaks to Rome or Berlin and making love in front of an open fire or on a deserted beach with the sun reflecting gold in those amber flecks in his eyes . . . and he'd been thinking 'fling'.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them