828 – “And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment.”

–Plato

569 – “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

–Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

143 – “Intimacy means that we’re safe enough to reveal the truth about ourselves in all the creative chaos. If a space is created in which two people are totally free to reveal their wall, then those walls, in time, will come down.”

– Marianne Williamson [attributed]