Quotes about Intimacy

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

He stood looking up at her; it was not a glance, but an act of ownership. She thought she must let her face give him the answer he deserved. But she was looking, instead, at the stone dust on his burned arms, the wet shirt clinging to his ribs, the lines of his long legs. She was thinking of those statues of men she had always sought; she was wondering what he would look like naked. She saw him looking at her as if he knew that.

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.

Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.

I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.

Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.