“I have always been awkward in my human. Some people love themselves easily. For me, it feels like strange, like kissing with braces.”— Andrea Gibson, fuckyeahandreagibson.tumblr.com
“Her kisses reminded me of lemon slices drizzled with sticky honey. Bitter, sweet and strangely irresistible.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.”— Richard Silken, amazon.com
“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”— Joyce Brothers, brainyquote.com
“People who like to be in control of things can have a hard time with intimacy. Intimacy is anarchic and mutual and definitionally incompatible with control. You seek to control things because you are afraid.”— Jonathan Franzen, mbird.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
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we l…”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.com
“She looked away. I thought she was looking for another cigarette. Then I saw she was crying. I could feel her crying. Shaking and crying. She wouldn’t look up. I put my arms around her.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Mark me like a passage from your favorite book, then open me there again and again.”— Tammy Brewer, amazon.com
“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
“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
“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
“Cooking is an incredibly intimate thing to do for people. Sex is intimate, but in a way, also completely non-intimate, depending on how you approach it.”— Alton Brown, eater.com
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman, ingridbergman.com
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”— Carl Rogers, stepbystepcounselling.co.uk
“My mouth hasn’t shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn’t stopped thinking about you since well before any kiss.”— Alex Turner, alexturnerisababe.tumblr.com