Paolo Raeli

In Case You've Forgotten, This Is The Beauty Of True Intimacy

Because it's a core human need.
Heidi Priebe
January 5, 2017
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Spring, Sex, Relationships, Intimacy, Passion, Dating, Spilled Ink
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”
— Cristin O'Keefe, December
Tagged: Love, Sex, Relationships, Falling In Love, Intimacy
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Sex, Dating, Love
“He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Touch, Love, Lust, Desire, Sex
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Love, Miracle
“Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, Love, Kissing
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
— Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (Outlander)
Tagged: Sex, Intimacy, Bodies, Love
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Intimacy, Sex, Love, Relationships
“I taste her and realize I have been starving.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire, Kissing, Passion, Sex
“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Touch
“I touched you and my life stopped.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (English and Spanish Edition)
Tagged: Touch, Love
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Touch, Love, Intimacy
“I would put my lips to your canvas, taste where the sweat dripped from the paintbrush, and the thick, metallic earthiness of your skin.

I would run my tongue over the ridges of your beautifully crafted surface, kiss where the colors meet the edge of the frame. Claim it all as mine.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Could Be Art
Tagged: Love, Sex, Intimacy, Art, Poetry, poem, Favorites
“We crawl
through each other
and back again
guided by our blood-
electric finger tips.
I swim in you,
you in me until we
drift down, slowly”
— Roger Pfingston, "Occasion," in Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“Here lovers linger in the afterglow of intimacy, not yet concerned about the future, only enraptured by the dizzying dance they shared in each other's arms.”
— Wendy Maltz, Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge”
— Adam, Where She Went
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“There is't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging. ”
— Adam, Where She Went
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“Naked is being pure when we’ve all sinned. Naked is open to judgment and criticism. My 4am confession to you is what it’s like being naked. ‘This is who I am and I’m in love with you’ is being naked. No one gets this kind of naked anymore. We just take our clothes off.”
— Jennifer Machin, This Is What It’s Like To Be Naked
Tagged: Naked, Being Naked, Vulnerable, Intimacy, Layers, Sex, Initimate, My Favorites
“I know your skin. I know every inch of it, the feeling of your five o’clock shadow, hidden birthmarks with freckles due east and west, the scars, and the stories that go along with each one.”
— Natasha Vaughn, I’m Sorry That I Never Told You I Cheated
Tagged: Knowing Him, Describing Him, Love, Love & Relationships, His Body, Male Body, Beautiful, Connection, Intimacy
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Authenticity, Relating, Love, Connection, Bravery, strength
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Happiness, Bored, Boredom, Relationships, Love
“I could not make a move without making love.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Love
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
— Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder
Tagged: Touch, Love, senses, Truth, The Human Condition
“His body fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Bodies, Touch, Intimacy, cuddling
“Bring me to your suffering. 
The rattling roar of broken bones. 

Bring me the riot in your heart. Angry, wild and raw.

Bring it all.”
— M.Hollow (@miahollow), Mia Hollow Instagram
Tagged: Wild, Love, Passion, Fire