#macy

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

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diplomacy #fear #power #men

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #broken

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#preparedness #strategy #honor

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intimacy #marianne-dashwood #openness #opportunity #self-disclosure

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. ↗

— Iain Pears

#politics #virtue #dreams

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#relationships #weirdness #weird

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#patriarchy #white-supremacy #media