“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”
— Jodi Picoult“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.”
— Kamand Kojouri“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”
— Desmond Tutu“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.”
— Fiona ThrustThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
— Charles DickensThe body craves, but the hunger lies in the desire for closeness, a union beyond the physical.
— D.H. Lawrence