Quotes About Closeness

Sure, Noah was a bit closer than that...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't bread familiarity.

Must have been the cat." "You don't have a cat," Sooz said. "I have you," Sebastian replied. "That's close enough.

he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.

I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Aunts standing close in the kitchen like cigarettes in the pack, uncles splayed on furniture like butts in the ashtray.

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.

Aunts standing close in the kitchen llike cigaretts in the pack, uncles splayed on furniture like butts in the ashtray.

The end was always curled up there between us, like a sleeping cat, present even in our love-making.

It's now or never, come hold me tight.

when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…

For these reasons, oxytocin is sometimes called the cuddle hormone. The reuse of the hormone in so many forms of human closeness supports a suggestion by Batson that maternal care is the evolutionary precursor of other forms of human sympathy.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.

Love is exclusivity, selection.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.