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“O how gently and how lovingly dost thou lie awake in the depth and centre of my soul, where thou in secret and in silence alone, as its sole Lord, abidest, not only as in Thine own house or in Thin...”
“How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?""I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?""Traveling around the w...”
“...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..”
“I like the way you touch me.""I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?”
“If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak...”
“Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding. At the same time, he knew, settling down, you couldnt dislike...”
“Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our livin...”
“That would be fine, she said If were alone, well leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybodys having to butt in, and you can whisper in ...”
“Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way...”
“Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tiltit isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living with that. The world is made from our imagination; our ...”
“That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.”
“On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open”
“The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.”
“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textu...”
“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.”
“Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.”
“Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don’t share with anybody else. It’s letting him in. It’s laughing together. And it’s also feeling that deep hunger for each other!”
“In our busy lives, intimacy often becomes a set piece—we sit down and make time for discussions, for togetherness, for sharing. But sometimes the most intimate parts of ourselves—our desires, our f...”
“Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)”
