Larry Wall Quotes

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

I love touching. I always touch people.

I come from a family where people are physically affectionate. Hugging and kissing comes naturally to me.

I'm a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy feeling vulnerable, so I think my loved ones and my family make me feel vulnerable. Also, being connected with people when I'm working is a very vulnerable place to be.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?

I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

I don't understand why my fans ask for a hug, like, i don't mind, just come and hug me!

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.