“I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of a guide that can tell you when you've crossed the line.”— James D. Parriott, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“The woman literally often can’t take an intimate touch if her lover has recently been verbally disrespectful, or has failed verbally to soothe 'the Goddess in her' at some point beforehand, priming the release of oxytocin and vasopressin in her body and preparing the parasympathetic nervous system t…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“There is a togetherness in the low-grade annoyances, the permission to share that fleeting intolerance, the striving for something better, the simultaneous ungratefulness and optimism of, “Eh, could be better.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“The permission to be fed up with each other is the highest mark, to me, of intimacy and trust.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“The casual anonymity is another facet, the adjacent face of the diamond of intimacy, the way small talk and cute sayings on mugs of coffee are joyously cynical, like how standard it is for spouses to joke about hating each other, or for parents to mockingly roll their eyes about their kids.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
““Why do young women have sex with men they don’t want to have?” is a question that begs another question: “How has men telling their female peers for the first decade of their adult lives that they aren’t ready for commitment affected women’s self-worth and thus their ability to set sexual boundarie…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“It's amazing how many people don't know anything about the person that they're with.”— Liz Tigelaar, Jack Briggs, Kyle Bornheimer, imdb.com
“It must be hard to be intimate with someone that you don't feel really safe with.”— Zander Lehmann, Valerie Meyers, Michaela Watkins, imdb.com
“But maybe a face that needs holding. Or some laundry that needs folding, like that other night when I faced you, pulled your shirt over your arms and heard you say, everyone deserves this. And I didn’t know if you meant a shirt or arms or just someone to pull it off of you. Someone to touch your fre…”— Kimberly Grey, narrativemagazine.com
“I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“He smells like the bar nights I was too young for and the music my mother hated. He was elecricity and I was warm running water. A bathtub waiting for the toaster. I would have waltzed to the very ends of this Earth, just to be his, as long as he was mine.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“make love like you have no secrets like you’ve never been left never been hurt like the world don’t owe you a single wretched thing.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“There’s unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it’s real with me and her… She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She’s always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times.…”— Johnny Cash, books.google.com.ph
“Being together is the miracle, being together and caring. Sleeping together, feet touching, legs touching. Being asleep and together”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“And when he kisses me it tastes like love but his love tastes a lot like leaving”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“You see I’d like to have you not just like me in bed but like me in the head and like to talk about things that interest us both.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Making love with you is like drinking sea water. The more I drink the thirstier I become, until nothing can slake my thirst but to drink the entire sea.”— Kenneth Rexroth, books.google.com.ph