of Intimacy
Source: Webster's dictionaryIntimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. Elizabeth Bowen
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. Henry Taylor
I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies. V. S. Naipaul
The planet doesn't hate you,” Theo had once said. "But its intimacies are fatal. Robert Charles Wilson
Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women. Martin Amis
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. Will Self