“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“It’s impossible to be truly intimate with someone if you don’t like yourself.”— Jane Fonda, amazon.com
“Maybe there was nothing more intimate than someone knowing all your secrets, every one of them, and sitting beside you anyway.”— Megan Miranda, amazon.com
“A woman doesn't have to provide access to her body as proof she likes you or loves you.”— @zllieimani, pursuit0fhappyness.tumblr.com
“You can share your deepest, most intimate thoughts with him, and you know you can count on him to not tell anyone.”— Naomi Epps, blackloveadvice.com
“In a healthy relationship, both of you will be excited and engaged. If you partner isn't distant and is fully focused on you, you likely have nothing to worry about.”— Olivia Youngs, romper.com
“You look at each other, and it’s not weird. You make eye contact on purpose, and it doesn’t freak you out. In fact, it makes you smile.”— Julia Austin, madamenoire.com
“With casual sex, cuddling is usually off the table, but when you’re with someone you love or care about, it’s a necessity. This brings you even closer together and makes the overall sexual experience that much more meaningful.”— Angelica Bottaro, bolde.com
“Compose one long sexy message in your head where you convey your longing for physical intimacy. Be as racy and as detailed as you can be with this message. Now, send this message in parts, or by phrases. Send the first four words through a social media messaging platform such as Facebook or Twitter.…”— Geninna Ariton, lovepanky.com
“Something as simple as watching the same porn video can help foster intimacy. Knowing your partner sees what you’re seeing is a major turn on, and if you combine it with phone or video chat, the experience becomes even more intense.”— Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com
“To make the best of the time you do spend together, take time to plan an 'intimacy goal' for each visit. One weekend might be all about staying in bed to develop physical intimacy. Another might be about showing your partner the details of your everyday routine. The next visit might be about meeting…”— Rebecca A. Marquis, yourtango.com
“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“Through sexual intimacy, two human beings become one mind, body and soul wrapped up in the cocoon of their skin.”— Abhijit Naskar, amazon.com
“The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never…”— Fiona Zedde, amazon.com