Quotes About Touch

He felt her cold lips touch his eyes, like coins for Charon. After a time he heard her singing... The song was a piece of forever.

The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us.

Every contact, for the lover, raises the question of an answer: the skin is asked to reply.

Language is a skin : I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Unlike Franklin or Jefferson, he never learned to subdue his opponents with a light touch or a sly, artful, understated turn of phrase.

When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar.

chest, pressing damp cotton against her skin, the ball of his thumb down in her cleavage. Not a tender gesture.

The loneliness became more and more unbearable. I ached to be touched. I feared I was disappearing and I'd cease to exist if someone didn't touch me.

An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

Promise. Don't misunderstand me—you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.

Theta's hand slid just slightly toward Memphis's. He inched his forward, too, just grazing the tips of her fingers with his.

feel very deeply. Even romantically. But those feelings live inside my heart and my head. I can't translate them to the rest of me." Ling said "the rest of me" quickly and quietly. "I don't know if I want to be touched in that way. I don't know if my love is a physical love.

I feel very deeply. Even romantically. But those feelings live inside my heart and my head. I can't translate them to the rest of me." Ling said "the rest of me" quickly and quietly. "I don't know if I want to be touched in that way. I don't know if my love is a physical love.

The power of the croisé, or the cross, comes from leverage. When executed with proper form and employed without hesitation, the opponent runs upon your blade. This is not a move that requires a heavy hand; in fact, it is best done with the gentlest of touches.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

Our sincere tears can touch our sinless saviour, to change our sinful life.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.

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