Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind...

Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.(…) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

We love those to whom we can tell our story.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

Sex isn’t what I’m after. Sex is just what I can get.

ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I’ve mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was...

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in...

If you’re heartless, try not to steal someone else’s

I love being aroused.I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again. It’s like I’m being made new.

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 couldn´t dislike...

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what...

A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies – though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are...

On fréquente les gens pendant des années, parfois des dizaines d’années, en s’habituant peu à peu à éviter les questions personnelles et les sujets réellement importants ; mais on garde l’espoir que plus tard, dans...

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was...

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, you can get changed in the stock cupboard,’ he said. ‘We’re not posh enough here...

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not...

Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth.

Don’t let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection...

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

The physical stage of bonding is at its most powerful when all other forms of bonding have been achieved. If this has been done, the final petals of the flower have reached full maturity and...

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...

I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.

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...

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it.” Here we...

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

The best sex takes place in the mind first

…you can’t be intimate unless you’re sensitive…

What people don’t realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules — don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so,...

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or,...

There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and...

To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it 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 eyes...

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Možda se nijedna druga vrsta intimnosti ne može uporediti sa dva polgeda koja se susreću sa istom sigurnošću i odlučnošću i jednostavnošću odbijaju da se puste.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first...

With callused handsi tastedthe softness of the moonin the coldest windsi discoveredmy soul’s warmest fireplacein the roughnessof his stubblethe tenderest love.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids.

How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything...

Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy

Linda Boone; Intimate Life Lessons: developing the intimacy with God you already have.

The demand to be intimate or honest with a public can be invasive when the experiences of racial others are commodified as stories or objects that might be traded as evidence of intimacy, as proof...

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 world.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can’t...

בינתיים, עד אז, אנחנו משתמשים במילים גדולות ששואבות את כוחן מהנצח. אהובי, חיי, עולמי. כי מי ירצה לשכב בלילה ליד גוף חם וקרוב וללחוש לו באוזן באינטימיות “פשרה שלי… פשרה יקרה וזמנית שלי…”?