Quotes About Closeness

On not crowding another person in a relationship: "Next time you're at a cemetary, look around at all the headstones. They're side by side. Even married couples. Nobody wants a plot on top of another person's plot. Why? ... Even when they're dead, people still love their own space.

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

I'm so lucky to have you, Leni," Mama said, trying to organize her cards with one hand. "We're a team," Leni said. "Peas in a pod." "Two of a kind." Words they said all the time to each other; words that felt a little hollow now. Maybe even sad.

The notion of "the present" refers to things that are close to us, not to anything that is far away. Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

and declining all efforts at closeness or intimacy. "James just doesn't seem to want me," I wrote in my diary. "Bastard, I hate him. Why do I love him so? Why don't I love a Giver? I suppose I need enough elusiveness to keep me feeling as unworthy as I believe myself to be. Perhaps James has

We will tire each other out, making our homes in one another's arms.

yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?

Sometimes you love someone so much that you can't bear a taste or a text because only this kind of moment will do. Shared air. Stillness on a love seat.

Love is hands, holding you.

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I dislike your formality."...."Your formality keeps us at arms length when I want not even a hairbreadths between us.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Perhaps the greatest adventure of all is intimacy: the willingness to strip away one layer of reticence after another, and on certain occasions to live entirely in the moment, revealing everything and expecting nothing in return.

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

She loved the fine hairs on his chest. She loved the strength in his arms, the sound of his laughter, the way he would always look into her eyes and say her name.

They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person?

Neighborhood is family.

Pickup lines of 2020 — Hey baby, let's quarantine together.

The challenge with those whom we love is that they are the only ones who can get close enough to us to cause us heartbreak.

Just lean on me, Lieutenant." McNab wrapped an arm around her waist. "You try to cop a feel, I can still put you down." "Whatever your condition, Dallas, you still scare me." "Aw." Touched, she slung an arm around his shoulders. "That's so sweet.

Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart.