Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
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We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it.… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
MY WORLD WAS FILLED WITH PITCH BLACK EMPTY SPACE LIKE THE COLD WHISPERING SILENCE OF THE BLOWING WIND ,UNTIL MY GAZING EYES… — Manuel Veger Copy Share Image
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I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“My mate is really, really weird. She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay. She laughs and holds a large lump… — Shay Savage Copy Share Image
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“You just ruined a perfectly delicious Danish!” I squawk at him. “Man,” he laughs, “note to self, don't mess with Elle’s pastries.”… — K. Larsen Copy Share Image
“A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.” She blinked, and… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging,… — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
“As Shane threaded between the cars and crossed the lot, all Crystal could do was stare. At the determination in his sexy,… — Laura Kaye Copy Share Image
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“Ah, here we are. Your watercoach, Myerialanna.”Calivan gestured to a lacquered blue-green boat, open at the front, and shaped to resemble a… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Can I kiss you?” And she would let him, lightly on her lips, a moment of brief anticipation. “Your kisses are like… — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
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“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I pulled out my cell, flipped it opened and said Hank’s name into the phone. It rang twice. “You okay?” he asked… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Loving is limbically distinct from in love. Loving is mutuality ; loving is synchronous attunement and modulation. As such, adult love depends… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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“Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
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And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
“Okay, first of all, I didn’t sleep with you to make amends. I slept with you because I wanted to.” He still… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
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