Believe Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least…

— Lorrie Moore

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

— Galt Niederhoffer

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain,…

— Edith Wharton

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, &…

— Edith Wharton

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

— Blake Bailey

“Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its…

— Siri Hustvedt

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

— Anonymous

“Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that…

— Leora Tanenbaum

Physical intimacy is emotionally binding. But there are lots of different sins.

— Hannah Brown

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

— Ambrose Bierce

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.

— George Packer