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Quotes About Closeness

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.
~ Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
~ Gia Coppola
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
~ Mary Catherwood
the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
~ Jodi Picoult
All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.
~ Kelly Cutrone
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
~ Gina Barreca
I find myself decidedly breathless when I am so close to you.
~ Mary Balogh
She could not bear the thought of missing a single minute this evening in which she might be either looking at him or at least feeling his presence.
~ Mary Balogh
I am so glad I was with you. I am sure no one else would understand. They would have been impatient with me . . . You understand how I feel.
~ Mary Balogh
There was a sweet, seductive feeling of comfort and closeness, with no unease at all.
~ Mary Balogh
But good-byes are hard to say . . . when a friendship is a very close one.
~ Mary Balogh
They seemed very much alone together in the room.
~ Mary Balogh
And that is something else you do . . . You joke a great deal about yourself so that no one can get close to really knowing you.
~ Mary Balogh
This late-adolescent camaraderie gave their time at Meadow a fraught emotional quality that was like the shimmering fullness of a bead of water before it falls. They were all about to scatter and become different from one another, and this made them exult in their closeness and alikeness.
~ Mary Gaitskill
It was a closely held family
~ Mary Kay Andrews
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
~ Mary Oliver
How sometimes everything closes up, a painted fan, landscapes and moments flowing together until the sense of distance— say, between Clapp's Pond and me— vanishes, edges slide together like the feathers of a wing, everything touches everything.
~ Mary Oliver
Like the heron, who can only croak, who wishes he could sing, I wish I could sing. ... Each of us wears a shadow. But just now it is summer again and I am watching the lilies bow to each other, then slide on the wind and the tug of desire, close, close to one another. Soon now, I'll turn and start for home. And who knows, maybe Ill be singing.
~ Mary Oliver
climbed in behind him. Crammed together
~ Mary Pope Osborne
It includes moving towards or leaning closer to you. For
~ Matt Morris
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson