“Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.”
“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”
“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.” —RENE YASENEK”
“Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.”
“Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.”
“Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?”