Intimacy is about safety. The peace you feel in someone's presence. The ease in their voice when you disagree. Someone's attentiveness when you are struggling. Their language when they speak about you, someone's curiosity to learn you and the surrender when it comes to you.
โI guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.โ
โ Before Sunset (2004)
โPlease donโt expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.โ
โ Sylvia Plath
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
โ Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited