Right and wrong Quote by Jasinda Wilder

“Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling…

— Georges Bataille

“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage”

— Josephine Hart

“Now I knew that an emotional affair was even more dangerous. It created a need to share every thought and feeling with another person.…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”

— Michel Faber

“What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he…

— André Gide

“The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody…

— Raymond Carver

“They had been under physical strain for the last few days — days full of brutality, fear, and death. Their lives were at risk…

— James R. Sanford

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

“Love was decidedly uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unwelcome.”

— Nora Roberts

“We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.”

— Warsan Shire

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

“We nearly pressed each other to death, our swollen lips and eyes, wishing up on ourselves the fall of tears, that great free anger,…

— Chang-rae Lee