{"quotes":[{"text":"The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["betray","betrayal","blab","confiding-in-someone","deep","eternal","expose","external","fear","insecure","insecurity","internal","intimacy","intimate","leak","open","private","privy","reveal","secrets","unfold","unveil"],"id":3922,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["belonging","intimacy","love","relationships","true-love"],"id":10713,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["beauty","darkness","freshness","girls","intimacy","movie-theatres","music","rock-and-roll","sadness","smell","summer","summer-nights","tears"],"id":10748,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Umm, well do I have to tell you how it’s done?” I tease, as I get on my knees and lean over him, . A wide smile spreads over his face as I straddle his lap.“Oh, are you taking dominance? I think I like that.” He grips his hands on my hips, pulling me as close as he can get.","author":"Annie Brewer","tags":["carter","gracie","intimacy","love"],"id":11991,"author_id":"Annie+Brewer"},{"text":"Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.","author":"Arthur Aron","tags":["contact","humanity","intimacy","psychology","relationship"],"id":13691,"author_id":"Arthur+Aron"},{"text":"[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["alarming","ape","asperger-s","aspergers","aspergers-syndrome","autism","behaviour","burning","charm","charming","dinner-party","fault","feelings","fire","hostile","incapable","intimacy","misanthropic","misanthropy","people","relationship","singeing","social-behaviour","unbalanced"],"id":13973,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"I like the way you touch me.'I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?","author":"Jeffrey Brown","tags":["intimacy"],"id":15429,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Brown"},{"text":"These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["intimacy","lies","love","lover","secrets","things-people-say","unspoken"],"id":15754,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart ... It splits him in half ... Vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together.","author":"A.M.M Alusi","tags":["broken","heart","intimacy","life","love","relationships","romance","truth"],"id":16394,"author_id":"A.M.M+Alusi"},{"text":"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.","author":"George Eliot","tags":["fondness","friendship","intimacy","love"],"id":16518,"author_id":"George+Eliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":384,"pages":39,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}