Quotes About Closeness

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

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

The closer we are to God, the richer we are

It's like resenting a mountain. From the very beginning they were closer. It was part of the unquestioned landscape of my childhood.

nasze uczestnictwo w Eucharystii b?dzie takie jak nasza codzienno??. Je?eli w codzienno?ci s? dla nas wa?ne jedynie przedmioty, sprawy do za?atwienia, interesy, nawet naj?wi?tsze, [...] wtedy przychodz?c na Eucharysti?, jeste?my ju? w jakim? stopniu pozbawieni mo?liwo?ci wej?cia z Bogiem w blisko??.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other's business.

I wasn't sure what I thought of the direction in which this appeared to be going, but I felt a sudden, unwelcome dart of something like envy. In school I had dreamed of friendships like this: the steel-tempered closeness of soldiers in battle or prisoners of war, the mystery attained only by men in extremis.

Friendship is not necessary for closeness

Then he surprised me by laying his head in my lap, reaching for my arms and closing them around himself like a blanket.

didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

Ciò che doveva risultare familiare era remoto, e quel che avrebbe dovuto essere estraneo sembrava invece a portata di mano.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

I like spending time with cousins.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

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

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.