Aimee

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Aimee’s Quotes

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

tags: awkward-situations, being-in-love, contact, intimacy, love

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“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.' ”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: compromise, intimacy, lexicon, privacy, vulnerability

26 likes

“That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.”
― Tim Relf, Stag

tags: intimacy, knowing, relationship-quotes

2 likes

“Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

tags: intimacy

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