#intimacy

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. ↗

Connubial Because 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 in danger of being terribly understood. ↗

— Stephen Dunn

#alarming #connubial #identifying #intimacy #love

When you heart and soul are in it, making love is not just special, Maryah-- it's magical. ↗

— Karen Amanda Hooper

#love

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#artists #dangerous #great #i #intimacy

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#kissing #intimacy

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intimacy-self-sacrifice #therapy #transparency #love

You may know where to touch her, but that doesn't mean you know how to touch her. Take time to learn what she truly desires. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#foreplay #intimacy #relationships #sex #relationship

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ↗

— Armand Assante

#great #i #i do #intimacy #people

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day. ↗