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Quotes About Closeness

It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.
~ Salman Rushdie
Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.
~ Cassandra Clare
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
~ Babette Deutsch
The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.
~ Dennis Wilson
Nici unul nici altul îns? nu putea rosti o vorb?; p?rul unuia atingea fruntea celuilalt, r?suflarea amândurora se f?cuse una, mâinile le ardeau strâns înl?nÈ›uite.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I'm treating you like a relative. I don't pay enough for the privilege.
~ Alfred Bester
What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
~ Alice Hoffman
She realized it had never been love between them, for you cannot love someone you can never know.
~ Alice Hoffman
Her husband was asleep beside her. She could
~ Alice McDermott
I had the feeling that if she could have moved all around me, been in front and behind and on both sides at once, that was what she would do. She would close me off, she would peer into me until she found whatever she wanted, and got it rearranged.
~ Alice Munro
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
~ Alice Sebold
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
~ Alice Walker
What is a promise if not your hand in mine?
~ Alice Walker
He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Who'll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who'll look into my hooded eye Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh?
~ Allen Ginsberg
Wherever you are, I will be happy as long as I'm with you." August 2009 Dear Reader: For twelve books, I've written about the types of evil men and women commit against their fellow human
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
O mundo inteiro pode se incendiar à nossa volta – disse Jakob. – Eu vou te abraçar até o fim. Você não vai ter como fugir de mim.
~ Joe Hill
I figured Alan wasn't really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that this would be as bad as it would ever get.
~ Joe Meno
Family breathes for each other, and close family breathes as one.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
You stand in my soul; I stand in yours. That's the room we always share, no matter where we are.
~ Joey W. Hill
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
~ Johann von Goethe
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
~ Tom Robbins
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. '…then I declare you bonded for life.
~ J. K. Rowling