#intimacy

Open your eyes, baby. Look at me.” He pressed his forehead down to meet mine, my eyelids fluttering open at his command. “Look at me and tell me you don’t want it.” I peered up at him with unsteady breaths, hearing his throat work when I tilted my lips to graze his. The contact was feather light, my heart hammering through my chest at the feel of it. “I’m looking,” I breathed against him. “Good. Because right now, all I want to do is rip your clothes off and make you come until you can’t stand, and I want your eyes on me the whole time, are we clear?” -Jackson and Emma ↗

— Rachael Wade

#intimacy #love #sex #love

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#community #fear #intimacy #relationship #freedom

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

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage ↗

— Josephine Hart

#love #love

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

— Karen Amanda Hooper

#love

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure. ↗

— Frank Harris

#intimacy #youth #love

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

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

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

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. ↗

— Keith Miller

#i #i am #intimacy #reality #sharing