“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that…”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No ele…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”— Diana Gabaldon, amazon.com
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”— Rumi, inhalelove.com
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”— Cristin O'Keefe, muzzlemagazine.com
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”— David Richo, amazon.com
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, thebakerypoetry.com
“Healthy intimacy requires the trusting offer of our true self to another and our trusting acceptance of the other’s true self in return.”— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, amazon.com
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“We live in a world where people are afraid to feel anything genuine, or at the very least, are afraid to show it.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.com
“I desire to make images because I desire to find and to be found by you despite the risk. The distance between you and I will never be subsumed but we can take steps and make glances towards each other, send smoke signals, like Gatsby reaching out towards that single green light, minute and far awa…”— Jeremy Schlangen, static1.squarespace.com
“The main thing I've been trying to communicate, whether it's in terms of spirituality, in terms of media, in terms of marketing and communications, or even in terms of politics and economics, is that there's one thing going on here: people are desperately afraid to accept the fact that we are moving…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com