Quotes about Intimacy
When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
— Milan Kundera
The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.
— Alfred Edersheim
Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
— Alice Hoffman
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
— Alice Hoffman
It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.
— Alice Hoffman
It was a small ceremony at the town hall, and they didn't exchange wedding rings, but they kissed for so long at the counter in the hall of records that they were asked to leave.
— Alice Hoffman
What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
— Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
— Alice Hoffman
Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
— Alice Walker