INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.
He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.
