Decades Quote by Peter Watts

“He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.”

— Robert Galbraith

“His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.”

— Donna Tartt

“Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever…

— Jane Green

“He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.”

— Harry Mulisch

“For many, many years to come, I would keep telling myself that the barest minimum of acknowledgment from lovers was enough.”

— Roxane Gay

“Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable.”

— NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM

“And for the record, there are plenty of women I haven't slept with." Several sets of eyes turned on him in disbelief. Geez.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Last night was nothing more than one of those desperate lunges at intimacy so common in this part of the world, where sex is…

— Cynthia Adina Kirkwood

“And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I’ve never known with either man or woman since childhood, and…

— Andrew Pyper

“None of us have had any sex for 2 years,”

— Neil A. Hogan