#intimacy

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#attained #certain #him #i #intimacy

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#difficult #important #independence #intimacy #line

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#enter #intimacy #into #must #people

There are times when your heart may be so full that it seems as though it is going to break. It may be sorrow, anguish, frustration, guilt, anger—any number of feelings can build up within until you reach your breaking point. At these times you have a couple choices to make: you can either try to handle it yourself or you can turn to God. And in turning to God, you can either do so superficially, or you can do so deeply, with total honesty. ↗

— Linda Boone

#anger

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#intimacy #karachi #love #pakistan #romance

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#intimacy #longing #stories #friendship

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 enliven it, as our hands give it shape. Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in, not what you extract. You only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

#imagination

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

— David Baldacci

#knowledge #understanding #life

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#love #lovers #relationships #love

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it. ↗

— Iain Thomas

#intimacy #love #skin #love