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Quotes About Closeness

Being unconscious with somebody, that's a big deal.
~ Karen Russell
Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.
~ Karen White
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
~ Kate Bosworth
Let's leave it for tonight. Is it a decent hour for two middle-aged people to go to bed?' He held out his hand for her. Half an hour later he exclaimed, 'My God, where did you learn that?' 'I read a book once,' she answered. 'Thank God for literate women,' he said fervently.
~ Kate Wilhelm
I've always thought that the supreme relationship is the one between mother and child, and the bond of mothers and sons can be devastatingly intimate like no other relationship on earth.
~ Katherine Clark
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our "madness" to unite us, there wasn't anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
their fingertips casually touching, in the way of people who were entirely comfortable around each other. She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her. There is love here, she thought. In the end, she decided, with some amount of disappointment, that none of them were involved romantically.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He put his head in the crook of her shoulder; the freight was in proportion to the groove.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No," Sam said. "We've never…It's more than romantic. It's better than romance. It's friendship.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Daedalus, I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
head to acknowledge the occasional petting
~ Garth Stein
However things might change around us, we would always be together.
~ Garth Stein
Like many people, there have been times in your life when you have been concerned about the possibility of going to hell. You didn't realize you were already there. There is an old Hebrew mystical tradition that says hell is distance from God and Heaven is closeness to Him — a thought that is quite valid.
~ Gary R. Renard
Almost Beyond: She laid on my chest & her breathing filled me almost to beyond what I could hold.
~ Brian Andreas
The Whole World: My favorite thing is being your lap while we sit there together & love the whole world.
~ Brian Andreas
I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.
~ Brian Andreas
Through the night it is a nice relaxing feeling to have someone warm beside you in bed.
~ Brian Masters