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“There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.”
“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which ...”
“This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasnt just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical needit was an off...”
“Thered never been anyone who could knife him so with a momentary word, and then speak the wound away in the very next moment. If all those little boyhood heartbreaks had been supposed to make him r...”
“A woman must choose her friends and lovers wisely, for both can become like a bad stepmother and rotten stepsisters.In the case of our lovers, we often invest them with the power of a great Mage - ...”
“Sharing our story is one way we create intimacy. And like a good novel, its more engaging and lasting when we allow it to gradually unfold.”
“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”
“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)”
“The best sex takes place in the mind first”
“Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson”
“It's naive to assume that another person can fulfill you, or save you, if the two things are, in fact, different, and I have never felt that way with Colin. I simply believe that he fulfills an imp...”
“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedul...”
“While I'd been plagued by nightmares of Jonathan's unrest in the hereafter, it was only now that I'd seen Adair againand seen him so changedthat I could admit, even to myself, that it was him I day...”
“There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.”
“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
“The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.”
“The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.”
“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”
“I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldnt touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldnt drown.”
“It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.”
