Quotes About Closeness

Norton tightened his arms around her. One of the nicest things about weightlessness, he often thought, was that you could really hold someone all night, without cutting off the circulation. There were those who claimed that love at one gee was so ponderous that they could no longer enjoy it.

You can be friendly with someone without being friends. And you can be close friends without being friendly. Anyway, that's my opinion. I'm not asking you what you think.

Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy...

Let us love this distance which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated

Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance that is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other cannot be separated.

They knew each other very well--so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship.

You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.

In this, with him... I'm as close to the sky as I've ever been.

Because the thing about letting people into your heart is, you can just push them out again. Easy.

We've always been that couple. Blended. Intertwined. We read each other's thoughts. We finished each other's sentences. I thought we couldn't surprise each other anymore.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.

To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.

You are closer to me than my breath,

proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them.

I laid my head upon her shoulder, and could hardly speak for the comfort that she gave me.

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

Se parece a enamorarse, saber que acabas de encontrar a tu mejor amiga.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

I want to spend time with you.