#intimacy

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

It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself ↗

— Lou Andeas-Salome

#love #love

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

— Iain Thomas

#intimacy #love #skin #love

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

Tu ești pentru mine relația necesară. Toți ceilalți sunt întâmplători. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#love #passion #relationship #love

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#love #death

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. ↗

— David Walliams

#bit #book #characters #depth #emotional

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