“I want you. I want your sleepy confused look when you wake up. I want to be the warmth that fills the space in your bed. I want to be the sheets your fingers crave at night; the blanket that wraps around you all night. I want to drink tea with you, share some records we find. I want to talk about ev…”— Elay Neal Moses, wordsthat-speak.tumblr.com
“With you, intimacy colours my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.com
“When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don’t know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I’ve ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don’t.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I want to keep kissing you until our lips can’t tell each other apart.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.”— Keanu Reeves, filmmonthly.com
“You can’t find intimacy–you can’t find home–when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and…”— Junot Dìaz, identitytheory.com
“Oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Being together is the miracle, being together and caring. Sleeping together, feet touching, legs touching. Being asleep and together.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit toget…”— John C. Moffi, andilaurenc.tumblr.com
“True intimacy is more than fooling around with somebody you’re attracted to. I want to share myself with somebody who will press her hands through the surface of my skin, curl herself up inside my soul and say, Here, this is who I am.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com
“Some days I can go nearly an hour without thinking of the taste of your mouth.”— Tim Seibles, youtube.com