#Intimacy

"Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved."

"See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive."

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."

"I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself."

"Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence."

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."

"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."

"The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn."

"The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary."

"his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be."

"You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them."

"The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence."

"ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood."

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."

"The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air."

"Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life."

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

"Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms."