That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Don't worry. I know the truth." "The truth about what?" Cam stepped back. "You want to say yes, but you're just not… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him.… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“Back in bed I listen to every sound. The plastic tarp over the table on the balcony crunching in the cold wind.… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
“Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“When you find the right person, yeah—this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
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