Quotes about Intimacy

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips, and felt that he had never been away.

Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.

While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.

a negligée of robin's-egg blue laid out upon the bed diffused a faint perfume, elusive and familiar. On a chair were a pair of stockings and a street dress; an open powder box yawned upon the bureau. She had gone out.

He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another

Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.

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.

Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxicabs, bound for the theater district, I felt a sinking in my heart. Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside. Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well.

She had been kissed once and made love to six times.