Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted - every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

If I ever get a chance to be with you forever, I will like to be within you, to be explored and loved in silence.

So you'll be my bodyguard for any guys who want to introduce me to anal?' I joke.'I will defend your virtue and your ass to the death,' he says with a knightly vow.

It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I...

An hour would be enough. An hour with my head on the pillow beside yours, foreheads touching, eyes locked with eyes {just the two of us, mind you, minus that sodding cat}; an hour to smell the smell...

They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers. . . . There was a shared space between...

She drank in the sight of him, the power, the virility, the sheer sexiness. She knew just how well those lips of his kissed, how gentle and coaxing his hands could be, and how mouth-watering his body...

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving {Starlight at midnight} At last they came, Their full communion And consummation, Their...

Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom... I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.

Oh, darlin', I'm gonna walk you through it, kiss you through it, feel you through it, taste you through it. Hell, I'm hoping you call out my name through it, but for some reason, if I can't get you...

If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. Take off your clothes.

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the...

Sex is an emotion in motion.

There is nothing better than sleeping and dreaming beside you - It's like having a dream within a dream.

I loved him with my eyes closed and my heart wide-open. And, when my naked soul saw his for the first time — it was like looking into a mirror. I recognized myself, in him, in an instant. It was as...

Special Logan Kiss... Yeah, but you didn't know that I'd recited how I felt for you right then, in that moment, in my mins. The words flowed silently, so easily. There's no mistaking them. When I gave...

I took her to bed with silk and song. 'Lay still, my love, I won't be long, I must prepare my body for passion.' 'O, your body you give, but all else you ration...'

So... just kissing ... ? If he was disappointed, he didn't show it. Kudos to him. "Some feeling up is allowed, but nothing below the waist. And absolutely no sex." Just saying it out loud was getting...

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

{... } I pulled off his shirt, wanting to kiss his skin. He stepped back and straightened up. - In the war room, love? What if someone comes in? I stood up and took off his shirt. - Then you'll have a...

His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He...

"Simon," she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her...

This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house. "What did you expect?" "I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous,...

, he whispered into her mind.

I can't believe you let me touch you. His voice grew hoarse. I shall remember this for all my nights. Tears streamed into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment...

Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.

Or make her blushing cheek a pillow for thy head

She felt both relaxed and protected with him, at least from outside forces. Nothing, it seemed, could protect her from him, and tonight she wasn't even certain she wanted to be. Claimed, and mated....

I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than...