144 quotes found
“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each ot...”
“the sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently before.you have put a circle of castlesaround my penis and you swirl themlike sunlight on the wings o...”
“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”
“...they knew each other as much as they knew themselves, and their intimacy, rather like too many suitcases, was a matter of perpetual concern; together they moved slowly, clumsily, effecting lugub...”
“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”
“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage”
“It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself”
“Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.”
“If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.”
“Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a bu...”
“Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.”
“You know whats so funny and sad about us human beings? . . . We are constantly torn between the all-consuming desire to be loved and the terrifying fear of being known. Deep inside we dont believe ...”
“We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.”
“The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that...”
“I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.”
“Im counting my drawer when Regn comes into the office. I hear her before she enters. I listen for her. The sound of the keypad, the sound of three doors. I saw her pull up on my way in. The anticip...”
“Intimacy wasn't sex, she realized. It was knowing someone.”
“No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then ...”
“the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. intimacy”
“The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.”
