Quotes About Closeness

Maybe that's what real adult love was. Being fearless enough to hold each other close no matter how catastrophic the world became.

We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

I feel like we grew in the same womb or something. Like we've been connected from the beginning by blood and veins. Siamese soul lovers, if there could ever be such a thing.

When you're around somebody for a long period of time, they know you and you know them. So, there's a lot of nonverbal communication that happens.

If you kiss straight on, your noses hit together, see?

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)

Le meilleur commencement pour une bonne amitié, c'est un secret.

Darkness bound them closer than light.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.

though darkness bound them closer than light.

what the hell is 'emotional bonding,' anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Ibland är det bara nära vänner som kan förstå vad vi försöker få sagt. Nån som vi ofta har varit tillsammans med och som lyssnar noga på vad det är som vi försöker säga, och som försöker förstå (s. 220).

she was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.

I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours.

which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

You live most intensely in human contact- and that's what we shrink from, poor timid creatures, from giving our souls to somebody to touch; for they, bungling fools, will generally paw it with dirty hands

They were so intimate, and utterly out of touch.

He was filled with the warmth of her. In the glow, he could almost feel her as if she were present.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.