Quotes About Intimacy

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Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

El enamorado es sincero hasta cuando miente.

Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

Wearing away our lips from kissing each other's souls

If Ronnie Clarke knew about Brenda and myself I had probably told him a bit more, but I didn't really care. He was a very old friend now, and there are some things that a friend ought to know.

I tell you what," said Troy more amiably. "I've always been frightened of the whole business. Love and so on." "The physical side?" "Yes, that, but much more than that. The whole business. The breaking down of all one's reserves. The mental as well as the physical intimacy." "My mind to me a kingdom is.

the pairing instinct is the great remover of the limits between individuals

It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.

And if they don't like it if you use those words and they stop moving put their hand on your mouth say Don't say thatdon't use that wordI don't like it if they say they don't want to try being handcuffed to the towel rack in the bathroom they're never any good in bed. They may be nice. They may be witty charming etc. etc. They may be doing something for women's liberation (over what? over whom?). But they're never any good in bed.

you just wanted her to say, "I know what that's like." But of course, she can't say that, will never say that. And if she ever could then you could no longer be with her. Then you would both be tired. Then she would be a better friend, but a worse lover.

The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that's the thing—you're a couple, and couples can't function without trust.

But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.