Quotes About Closeness

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

Christian looked at her fondly. When she was happy, so was he.

With you, I don't want to do bad things.' 'There's always the one that you don't want to do bad things with, isn't there?' 'Yes, there's always the one,' he says. 'I want to lie close to you and feel your arms around me.' — And tell me everything, everything. . . . He has said that bit before.

I don't like answering private questions. The answers are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. Even when the other person is close to you.

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

A treasure had fallen into our hands and the treasure was each other.

I wondered how anyone finds closeness when violence is so near it.

So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

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believe you are an acquaintance of Odette Brown?' 'She's no acquaintance of mine. Odette Brown is my closest friend.

you're never more than twenty yards away from an estate agent!

It is good that a man should have his wife close at hand. It makes the spirit happy and guards against insanity.

There was a unique pleasure in knowing a friend so well, Reynie reflected, rather like sharing a secret code.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.