Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Intimacy is a difficult art.

I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

I sank down onto the bed against the headboard and leaned back. I crossed my legs underneath me. "Then we'll talk." I said with a smile. Rush sat down onto the bed and leaned back against the wall. A deep chuckle came from his chest and I watched as a real smile broke out on his face. "I can't believe I just begged a female to sit and talk to me." In all honesty, I couldn't either.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I know.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.