“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine eve…”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“How dare you linger on my lips and then kiss me like a stuttering apology with excuses stapled to the roof of your mouth. I still remember you like a dream tattooed to the inner walls of a long term memory but some days I wonder if you existed at all.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same degree that I detested commitment.”— Amanda Palmer, amazon.com
“It's strange isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the tough of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not o…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“But she might hold him. That was all that mattered now. To hold him. To hold him. Not to let him go. Make him stay.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Come over. I don’t really mind whether we talk for hours, get blind drunk, or sit in silence and look up to the stars. Sometimes, the world down here just gets a bit much, and I need to lose myself in someone’s company for a little while.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“We held hands once and were beautiful. But what followed? Sleepless nights, oh, sleepless nights.”— Jamaica Kincaid, amazon.com
“I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”— Robert Sternberg, goodreads.com
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.’”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”— Jarod Kintz, amazon.com