Quotes About Closeness

What, then, does marriage teach us? It teaches us to strive for closeness. That intimacy cannot be attained or retained without effort.

I felt like you could open a door in my hollow, tin chest--just flip it open, easy--and see my heart throbbing, raw and bloody and sore. You could even reach in and squish it if you wanted to. I didn't want anyone getting close enough to open that door and see that mess (250-251).

Im bli?sza osoba, tym trudniej o czysty odbiór - wypatrujemy tego, co nam znane, nie dowierzamy temu, co obce i zamiast si? otworzy?, szukamy potwierdze?.

I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.

Vi blir faktiskt mer ledsna när våra familjemedlemmar är ledsna än om främmande människor är ledsna.

I meant simply to steady her, but she softened into me, almost sagged, and my arm tightened, and my need, and she let herself go so that I was half holding her up with one arm and pulling her pants down with the other.

The woman knelt by Peretur, close enough to touch her on the knee, though she did not.

Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other?

We're triplets. We do EVERYTHING together

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.

In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

People are always far away.

There's a couple—she is nestled up into his chest, eyes closed, like she's trying to top off an interrupted night's sleep.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between he and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves

True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with Jesus Christ.

Janet awoke to the delicious sensation of Jack's callused hand sliding over the bare skin of her ass. "Good morning, angel." His voice was deep and sleepy.

She slid her arms around him, rested her head against his chest. "You really are a softie, aren't you?" He held her fast, kissed her damp hair. "Don't tell anyone." "Your secret is safe with me.

It's mom and me sharing a blanket, in a rare quiet moment when all we're doing is enjoying each other. This woman made me. She should get to cuddle me whenever she wants. She spent years with me attached to her side. Why should it be weirder now that I'm more than a couple of decades old?

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.