#imac

Dear Judy Blume, why didn’t you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation. ↗

— Karen Amanda Hooper

#intimacy #judy-blume #kindrily #love #love-story

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 they say. ↗

— Mark Polish

#falling-in-love #flo #for-lovers-only #heart #in-bed-with

When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear. Too many years to be sincere, and too many lost favorites that were never there. A tear or two, and maybe three; apathy is-and may not be me. ↗

— Melody Aurora

#betrayal #intimacy #longing #love #sad

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #intimacy #love #soulmates

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that. ↗

— Gary Allan

#blues #close #differently #energy #everyone

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#council #credibility #legitimacy #main #member

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. ↗

— Tony Horwitz

#intimacy #pretence #shelby-foote #friendship