Quotes About Closeness

How could you think I wouldn't know you? he chided softly. I know the way you move, the way you bite your lip when you're nervous, the sound of your laughter, your eyes. I know your hands and your skin, your scent, the way you try to pretend that something doesn't bother you when you're very bothered indeed.

it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

It is the language, maybe?" he asked. "I know the vocabulary, but still I am not capable to work the language the way I want to. There is no special word for 'you' when it is you that I am speaking to. In English there is only one 'you,' and I have to say the same 'you' to you that I would say to a stranger; I cannot express my closeness.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them—an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her. The three little boys were such a clumped-together tangle, always referred to as a single unit, but Abby knew how different each was from the next.

We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself.

Adversity often leads people to depend more on one another, and that closeness can produce a kind of nostalgia for the hard times that even civilians are susceptible to.

What I liked about the encounter was that it showed how very close the energy of male conflict and male closeness can be. It's almost as if they are two facets of the same quality; just change a few details and instead of heading toward collision, the men head toward unity. There seemed to be a great human potential out there, organized around the idea of belonging, and the trick was to convince people that their interests had more in common than they had in conflict.

All three of us together, locked in love for that blink of a moment in time.

And, for some, closeness to death brings an epiphany which alters their lives forever.

Come closer and let me demonstrate." When she hesitates, I grin her way. "I dare you.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

stay-with-me vine.

we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart...

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

suente n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them, without thinking, without holding anything back, or without having to say a word-to the extent that you have to remind yourself that they're a different being entirely, that brushing hair away from their eyes won't help you see any better.

It was a mystery to Roger how someone he knew so well could be such an impervious, impenetrable stranger.

You're the most important person in my life," I said. He didn't say anything. "You're my brother," I said. He didn't say anything. "I love you, you little ratbag," I said. He smiled, snuggled down in the bed, and closed his eyes.