Quotes About Closeness

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.

Now I have you, which makes me significantly less mental." "Less mental is good.

I do not really want to be separate from them. Ever.

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person...I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.

Sometimes sex is the price that is exacted from her for warmth and attention. And if these sometimes wonderful moments of closeness must coexist with terrifying, confusing moments of abuse, she learns to see the two as parts of the same experience. She grows to think she wanted the incest itself. Because they've become enmeshed, she doesn't know that it was love she wanted, not sex.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

was not natural that men of different characters and tastes should be intimate, and

They slept separate at first, as if proximity harassed them, but towards morning a movement began, and they woke deep in each other's arms.

There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Even your closest friends won't tell you.

A hug is the shortest distance between friends.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

Love is the thread that binds us.

Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.

My darling one....I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.

If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything.

To really touch something, is to love it.

They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.