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Quotes About Touch

His hand closed around her throat. Not a threat. Just the most possessive way a predatory changeling male had of touching a woman outside of sex. "Don't say his name." He brushed his thumb across her pulse.
~ Nalini Singh
I'll be gentle." Solemn words that made him want to smile. "I know you're a virgin. Psy don't have sex do they?" "No." Intimate touch was forbidden in the PsyNet. "But I think I have the concept figured out.
~ Nalini Singh
People always say it's changelings who most crave touch, but that's not the truth. A long time ago, long before Silence, Psy craved it more than any other." He let her words was over him like affectionate rain. His mate, his mate , was trying to temper his grief, trying to tell him they weren't so very different after all.
~ Nalini Singh
He didn't care about the cameras, just wanted to touch her. He could do that now without crossing dangerous lines because Kit thought it was all make-believe. But when he wrapped her hand firmly in his and held it against his thigh, he meant it. And when he tugged her close to his side and leaned down to nuzzle at her hair, he meant that too. As he did his words when he released her hand to wrap his arm around her shoulders. "I'm glad you're here.
~ Nalini Singh
All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could.
~ Nalini Singh
He haunts me. The sniper. In my dreams, he is a black shadow with his eye focused on the scope of a rifle. Sometimes, he puts down the weapon and walks toward me. Sometimes, he even touches me. But most times, he presses the trigger. And kills me.
~ Nalini Singh
También te intrigan los cuchillos? Por que si me tocas, te haré pedazos. Me importa un bledo que después me arrojes desde el balcón más cercano. Aquello pareció detenerlo, como si lo estuviera pensando. -No elegiría ese castigo para ti. Sería demasiado rápido.
~ Nalini Singh
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~ Unknown
He put his hands
~ Nancy Thayer
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
~ Natalie Angier
Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and... a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a "tide..." A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet... But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it...
~ Natsuki Takaya
But why so I call her Virgin if I don't believe in her as the Mother of God? One word: touched. God has touched her. That is both grace and torment; it raises up and strikes down; it is both a caress and the blow of a hammer. All is lost and God suffices.
~ Unknown
Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.
~ Unknown
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
~ Nicholas Sparks
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
~ Nicholas Sparks
For Leifen, a thing is beautiful if she can reach out and put her hand on it any time.
~ Nicola Griffith
She reached out as if to touch me and for a second I thought I felt her fingers on my cheek, then realized I was crying.
~ Nicola Griffith
I rubbed glistening liquid onto the armrests and imagined the hands that would touch the wood, perhaps resting there between turning the pages of a book, perhaps stroking the smooth wood, absently at first, then slipping a bit as the owner slept.
~ Nicola Griffith
She laid her hand briefly against Hild's cheek, which startled Hild so much she nearly knocked her cup over.
~ Nicola Griffith
She laid her hand, brief and light as a drift of hawthorn blossom, on Hild's head.
~ Nicola Griffith
The woman knelt by Peretur, close enough to touch her on the knee, though she did not.
~ Nicola Griffith
She wrapped her hands around the wooden bowel. This was real. This was stuff of life.
~ Nicola Griffith
Her hand felt good in Peretur's, warm, more than warm.
~ Nicola Griffith