I let you know me, see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn’t want it.
Every time I’m near you, I say more in five minutes than I’ve said in weeks. And I always regret it.[to Yennefer]
I’ve never known myself as well as I know myself when I’m with him.
The contents of a man’s letters are more valuable than the contents of his purse.
How nice it is to be so comfortable with someone that you can just sit in silence and not have to talk.
Guns lack intimacy.
If I were truly courting you, I would not need flowers, only five minutes alone with you in a drawing room.[to Daphne]
We don’t need toys to kill each other. Where’s the intimacy in that?
True love is something else entirely. It is when the rest of the world goes quiet. It is not eyes that meet but souls that dance. Settle into each other. Make room for each other until there is nowhere else to hide.
You know, my friend, Flo, once told me that intimacy was all about leaving yourself open to being attacked.[to John]
There’s no’ much I can say waking without it sounding daft and foolish, Sassenach. I can say things while you sleep. Your dreams will ken the truth of them.
I’ve never understood a thing about love, or battle, or politics, or art, or anything I was supposed to. I was a miserable warrior. The only thing I have ever known everything about is you.[to Akemi]
