Quotes About Closeness

That time, I slept in his room with him. We watched TV until he fell asleep, because he liked to sleep with the television on in the background. I couldn't fall asleep like that, so I waited until he did and then I turned it off.

You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.

Then I reached across, and I took his hand and laced my fingers around his. It felt like the most right thing I'd done in a long time.

I grabbed the stuffed polar bear on my dresser and hugged him close to my chest—his name was Junior Mint, Junior for short.

You know everything about me, even this,

think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Funny how when you're married all you want is to be anonymous to each other again, but when you're anonymous all you want is to be married and reading together in bed.

Funny how when you're married all you want is to be anonymous to each other again, but when you're anonymous all you want is to be married and reading together in bed.

But the smell of her hair. The way she clasped her hand around my fingers. This was like medicine.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Logan was close enough for me to touch, to smell, to feel his breath on my forehead. Close enough to kiss. If only he were alive.

Logan. Touching.

He watched me breathe. He knew my breath.

For a long time, they leaned against the wall, foreheads pressed together, breathing matched. They were one body, bound by the passion they'd shared. Mariah didn't think she'd felt so close to a lover before. As if he sensed those deeper thoughts, John kissed her cheek with such gentleness that it brought tears to her eyes and withdrew from her.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

Du bist der einzige Mensch, den ich liebhatte, obwohl ich ihn kannte.

closer, and to be concentrating on Whitehall.

I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

But when we sit together, close,´ said Bernard, ´we melt into each other with phrases.´

And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

He heard her coming up the stairs and noticed the difference in her tread when she was carrying two glasses and when she had walked down bare-handed. He heard the rain on the windowpane and he smelled the beech logs burning in the fireplace. As she came into the room he put his hand out for the drink and closed his hand on it and felt her touch the glass with her own.