Quotes About Closeness

Love was a fish factory—love, with all its murk and stink. You had to really love someone to live with him or her in close quarters.

the Siamese-twinship of marriage

knew everything about him, the way wives do. I even knew the inside of him, having been there that day in Dr. Ruffner's office to review the footage of Joe's colon. We sat and watched light travel through his most intimate inner tubing, and after that we were really bound together for life.

He couldn't tell her that what he wanted now, more than anything, was to fall asleep beside her. No touching, no kissing, no stimulation. No sensation, no consciousness. Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

Jonah couldn't tell her that what he wanted now, more than anything, was to fall asleep beside her. No touching, no kissing, no stimulation. No sensation, no consciousness. Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

So close. Yet not close enough that either had mentioned the other to her family—even to the point that my mother had not included her sister in her story of the Exposition. My

It's easy to love someone when they're all you know.

Hold me close,

Because I know you.

and his face is so close to mine that it's like he can see inside my soul

Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

Family is not an important thing. It is everything.

The moment I touched you, it was as if I had come home. You are the first person I want to see in the morning, and the last touch I want at night. I love you.

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the Ari, said,8 "Whoever does not shed tears during the Ten Days of Repentance—his soul is imperfect." The simple meaning of this is that during these days G-d is close to every Jew9 with, in the Chassidic phrase,10 "the closeness of the luminary to the spark.

It's not true but I long to be connected like that. I want someone to be able to tell I am out of sorts by the details of my distraction, like leaving the drawers of my dresser cracked open. I want someone to know me as well as

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

I've heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don't look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.

The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.

People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but what about the middles? the middles where you know everything there is to know. Where you can look at the person you love and know what they're thinking, see something on the telly and know how they'd react;When you know exactly what they'd wear to come round and see you.

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.