More quotations tagged with “intimacy”
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.
—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.
—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why
She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You