Quotes About Closeness

How did this way of dealing with emotion work to keep the most important relationships in your life intact?

It helps to remember that in love, mistakes are inevitable. We all sometimes miss our loved ones' calls for closeness. We all find ourselves distracted. We all get stuck in our own fear or anger and fail to catch loved ones as they fall. There is no perfect soul mate, no flawless lover. We are all stumbling around, treading on each other's toes as we are learning to love.

The longer partners feel disconnected, the more negative their interactions become

Feeling connected, feeling with someone goes hand in hand with feeling for that person.

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support — and better at giving it.

One thing is beautiful beyond my words to say it: August holding you.

lay beside him, drawing warmth from his body. We stared up at the branches, at clusters of yellow fruit, at the black sky smeared with stars. How awake we were, how alive. I pressed my ear to his chest and listened to the slow drumming. I thought us inseparable. A single timbre.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

People should be together, preferably surrounded by those they loved.

Family" included Natalie, who was the sort of aunt every kid wanted, the sort of sister every woman should have, related by something much more potent than blood.

A muscle moved in Tucker's jaw. He said, "You mean you want berating space. I breath better when you are close by.

She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind of warmth that clicked your bones back into place, smoothed out your muscles and made your blood sing a soft lullaby all the way around your body.

We lived less like husband and wife, it seemed, than affectionate brother and sister. I told myself there were worse things a person could say about her life than that.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

the way the people closest to us are able so effortlessly to thrust us to the farthest distance

Loving someone close-up - that was difficult.

Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el muro, y su madre, que estaba limpiándose las gafas al lado. Querer a quienes tienes cerca..., eso es lo difícil.

Do I look like a mess?" she asked. He nodded. "But you're my mess," he whispered.

And she never knew that he laid awake the whole time, his lips at her temple, his hand against her hair. Whispering her name. Whispering other words as well.

He took her hand and squeezed. "Do I look a mess?" she asked. He nodded. "But you're my mess," he whispered. And he was very glad for that.

it can often be most difficult to share one's fears with those one most deeply loves.

And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.