#intimacy

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

— Hisham Matar

#intimacy #loneliness #love #love

When a man and woman are in love,some decisions and questions are answered in silence. ↗

— Mitra June

#intimacy #love

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) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#stories #marriage

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it. ↗

— George Weinberg

#best way #demand #interestingly #intimacy #promote

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #bandstand #beat #club #feel

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. ↗

— George Halas

#been #boo #booing #city #favorite

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#convey #film #harder #i #i think

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fault #i #intimacy #lack #me

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#come #communication #films #great #i