Quotes About Closeness

It is enough that you will lie beside me. That I can put my hand upon you." Her expression went from wary distrust to incredulity. "And do nothing?" Hunter shared her sentiments. It was the most boisa idea he had ever come up with.

Ob-be mah-e-vah. " "What?" "Make room for me." He lifted the robe and joined her on the pallet. "Wha--you're not going to sleep with me?" " Nei che-ida-ha , I am very terribly cold." Loretta suspected he was lying, but she moved over, secretly glad to have him there, her mind shying away from the enormity of what that meant.

Bertha here, it was different. For him, there was a glowing warmth emanating from this little woman, and, although he couldn't tell her, he knew that for the rest of his life he would feel that wherever she was, he must be near her, at least within visiting distance, and that often.

Valerie saw Cesaire's eyes resting upon Suzette's reclining form. Valerie wondered whether he really saw her there anymore. After eighteen years of marriage, Cesaire did not seem to notice her gentleness with her children or her sun-streaked hair in the summer months. Was that what marriage was, an inability to see who the person was, the way that we don't know ourselves because we stand too close?

That's the thing about mothers. If you're close, you don't want to lose that closeness, though I don't know from personal experience. If you're not, you harbor this little thread of hope that you will be someday, and you don't want to be told you've just run out of time.

The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.

People who share a secret share a heart.

We were each other's best friend. No – more than that. We were each other.

terribly, but Maeve and Annie's friendship

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.

Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much . . .

A hug is the shortest distance between friends.

A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms.

Hugs are great gifts... The only wrapping is arms!

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only

We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

Then, we were still. We did not move, because we could not. We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

I've known him all my life and I hope I always know him.

I want to burn down the distance between us>