“The best kisses involve your entire bodies, not just your lips! Wrap your arms around your partner’s body, or stroke their arms, shoulders, and back with your hands. Press your body up against theirs. Hold their face in your hands, or run your hands through their hair. You can also take little break…”— Vanessa Marin, bustle.com
“One of the most basic ways that people mess up kissing is by going to extremes with the amount of pressure they use. Some people are way too forceful with their kisses, and wind up bumping teeth, pushing their partner backwards, or coming off as aggressive. Other people are shy and timid, and their…”— Vanessa Marin, bustle.com
“The best way to kiss a guy's ear? Kiss and suck on his earlobe for a moment and then trace the outline of his ear with the tip of your tongue. (Bonus points if you whisper something naughty to him.)”— Christie Griffin, cosmopolitan.com
“Instantly turn up the kissing intimacy by closing the A-frame: a smooching stance in which you and your guy are in the middle of a smooch but your hips are a mile apart. By pressing your hips together, the degree of desire quickly rises.”— Christie Griffin, cosmopolitan.com
“Good kissers are anti-hickey. Question: Who thought it'd be sexy to literally be a mouth vacuum? Oh, no one? GREAT — then we're officially retiring The Hickey. Be nice to Bae's neck: Small kisses down from the jaw or gentle lip-brushes FTW.”— Bernadette Anat, seventeen.com
“Good kissers keep calm and carry balm. No one can hate when your gloss game is strong, but actually mashing that onto a human's face is gross and cruel and no. Bae is probs trying to kiss your actual lips, not your Melon Mango Primer, so stick to that good ol' neutral lip balm.”— Bernadette Anat, seventeen.com
“Make sure, like your tongue, you control your saliva. Don't create river of slobber down your chins.”— Rich Santos, marieclaire.com
“Tongue use can be great, or horrible. My buddy was dating a girl who continuously licked his face when they kissed. It led to them breaking up. Remember, it's a kiss, not a facial wash. No one likes to be attacked by a tongue, or have their entire mouth filled by someone's tongue. But a tongue used…”— Rich Santos, marieclaire.com
“Don't try to control it, let it control you. A good kiss is powerful, so you should just let it grip you and go with it. The moment is broken if you try to control it.”— Rich Santos, marieclaire.com
“What would your lips do if my lips stopped diving through the most terrifying emptiness that is the feet or inches or miles between each other just to land upon yours?”— Tyler Knott Gregson, Tyler, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is giving and not saying, it’s making and not imagining, it’s holding and not wishing. Love is the reach, not the desire to do so. Love is the kiss not the regretting you cannot. Love is what we give and how we are to the person we love.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are home to me, you have always been and I will never stop sleeping on your porch until the day comes that you open the door and with tears fresh in your eyes kiss me and I taste the saltwater and the longing and the breath you’ve been holding for far too long.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“She apologized with you in her mouth, hot and hungry and holding back tears.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“This Spanish wine has all the dryness of rattlesnake skin abandoned between the forked thoughts of an Arizona moon. Moon tinged with bruises on one side. If this wine truly is a snake then it has silk scales and the warmth of a deep kiss pressed by a complete stranger against the lips of last night'…”— Alan Britt, amazon.com
“He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.”— John Green, amazon.com