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Quotes About Gesture

I reached into my bag and pulled out a pumpkin spice muffin with walnuts that was as moist as anything. "It can be plain for breakfast or I can top it with cream cheese frosting. I like a muffin that can go from day to evening." I gave it to her. She sniffed it, nodded, and held it up. "How do I know you're not trying to poison me?" I wasn't expecting that question. "Ms. Morningstar, I swear, if I was going to poison you, I wouldn't ruin a perfectly fine muffin to do it.
~ Joan Bauer
Carter placed her fingers over his hand and signed a single sign. "I love you too," she answered. "How did you know what I said?" He moved his fingers along her arm trying to convince himself she was truly with him. "I listened with my heart." Her gaze locked with his.
~ Jodi Thomas
But then he touched the flowers With the dry tips of his fingers. "Tell me how men kiss you. Tell me how you kiss.
~ Anna Akhmatova
He lifted her hand to his mouth and pressed a kiss, lingering for a moment. When a small, surprised gasp escaped her lips, he felt a surge of satisfaction. "There
~ Anna Campbell
All day long they hold what look like philosophical discussions, gesticulating slowly with their free hands and clasping tins of beer with the other. They seem to share knowledge of a world where each of them once had a place.
~ Anna Funder
La main, c'est bien. Ça n'engage pas trop celui qui la donne et ça apaise beaucoup celui qui la reçoit...
~ Anna Gavalda
Ils se donnèrent la main en remontant à la surface. La main, c'est bien. Ça n'engage pas trop celui qui la donne et ça apaise beaucoup celui qui la reçoit...
~ Anna Gavalda
Entra pure » disse continuando a sorridere in quel modo, lo sguardo dovunque, meno che dove io ero, e porgendomi la mano sudata. « Scusa se ho la mano sudata. Come stai? ».
~ Anna Maria Ortese
As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon's hand brushed against Meg's. He hesitated for a step or two; then he took her hand, ready to release her if she growled an objection. But after a startled look, she smiled and curled her fingers around his.
~ Anne Bishop
She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?
~ Anne Carson
Free marks are a gesture of rage. One of the oldest myths we have of this gesture is the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of paradise. Why did Eve put a free mark on that apple? To say she was seduced by the snake or longing for absolute knowledge or in search of immortality are posterior analytics. Isn't the simple fact of the matter that she was bored?
~ Anne Carson
When men try to be romantic they do it less by words than through things. Not for nothing are chocolates and jewelry described as 'tokens' of affection. Not for nothing does he 'say it with flowers'- he cannot say it with words. The male language of love is doing.
~ Anne Moir
I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.
~ Joshua Cohen
sunglasses and rubbed his right eye with his index finger.  Let's see...it was the October 15th issue, page 12, lower right-hand corner. Quinn
~ F. Paul Wilson
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He raised his right hand and with a papal cross he blessed the beach from the high terrace.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She yawned gracefully in my face.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He expressed his lack of principle by sweeping a seltzer bottle with a broad gesture to noisy extinction on the floor, but this did not interrupt his speech.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabella was quite stirred; she wound her handkerchief into a tight ball, and by the faint light that streamed over her, dropped it deliberately on the floor. Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
he surprised her by signing, "You are the most beautiful girl in the world." Ander didn't know it, but he had signed, "You are the most beautiful squirrel in the world.
~ Fannie Flagg