Quotes About Closeness

Inside the dark we are unprotected, and our troubles always come close.

The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.

He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.

Severing all ties with the family that had been so close to his for two generations was an added satisfaction to the feeling of true achievement Rask experienced, for the first time in his life, when he took the reins of his affairs.

Now I was someone else. We knew each other in a way we no longer were and never would be again. Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Mina drömmar om kärleken - des tycktes mig en gång att de voro så nära, så nära att bli verklighet.

Come be angry at a nearer distance

I urge you: Come be angry at a nearer distance.

sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us

It's like fighting, except what we're fighting for is to crawl inside each other's skin.

I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms.

I didn't think, then, that we could ever be closer. I'm not sure anyone can. I'm not sure there is a place closer to someone than being at their side, awake, while they're asleep.

It was strange, because she always felt that she hid herself from Erika, that she was more 'herself' with her 'true' friends, where the friendship flowed in an ordinary, uncomplicated, grown-up fashion (emails, phone calls, drinks, dinners, banter and jokes that everyone got), but right now it felt like none of those friends knew her the raw, ugly, childish, basic way that Erika did.

everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.

It´s so much easier to cry when there are arms around you.

For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

You are in my stomach' was their most intimate expression of love

with me an instant before

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

She held me. I held her. We were one. (230)

Lionel Richie

Likewise, the simple adjacency of warm bodies supplies the deepest of animal comfort.