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Quotes About Closeness

I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart. I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough.
~ Jim Dodge
Maybe that afternoon was the closest I ever felt to Bob: his eyes were as old as God, and he was fragile as a winter leaf.
~ Joan Baez
He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.
~ Joan D. Vinge
And without good feelings about herself, she could not feel close to the goodness of the Mother.
~ Joan Dahr Lambert
Marnie moved nearer and touched her hair. "Dear Anna, I love you more than any girl I've ever known.
~ Joan G. Robinson
You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine.
~ Joan G. Robinson
Didn't you know, you're my secret?
~ Joan G. Robinson
But those are your fingerprints, babe.
~ Joanna Wylde
And take your fucking arm out from under my head. Cuddling is for closers.
~ Joanna Wylde
Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very closest friends.
~ Jocelyn Gibb
When they made up, it was as if nothing had happened at all. In fact, it was like they were stuck even closer together, like they had gotten even more tangled in each other.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
~ Jodi Picoult
They were a family. Her mother said that all the time, and then she would pick up Eddie and pull Adria close to her in a hug at the same time. If Daddy was there, he'd put his arms around them all and make what he called a family sandwich with his children in the middle.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think
~ Ann Howard Creel
The air between us is not empty space.
~ Ann Napolitano
William wanted to cup his hands again, to hold close his love for his wife, to hold close her love for him.
~ Ann Napolitano
Ta?u esmu egoists, tur tev taisn?ba. Es tev saku, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej, t?p?c, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej. Es dom?ju par sevi. Tu man esi tuv?ka nek? paša meita.
~ Anna Gavalda
Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other." —RENE YASENEK
~ Annabelle Gurwitch
I have never known a closeness like that (…) I guess it never ends. A brother never ends. I prowl him. He does not end.
~ Anne Carson
Don't want to be free want to be with you.
~ Anne Carson
To live and know it is only for a moment … that is to know 'the soul' … and it increases closeness and despair and happiness … My life with you increases all things because I value it so much.
~ Anne Sexton
friendship... it's such a leap of faith
~ Annie Bryant
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
~ George Weinberg
We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.
~ Deborah Joy Winans