Quotes About Touch

Sheriff Ostervelt snapped his black case shut and tucked it under his hamlike arm. He went to Mildred, walking like a bear on its hind legs, and laid a large red paw on her shoulder. "Coming along with me, little girl?" She shrank at his touch. "I'll ride with Mr. Archer. He brought me here.

She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.

Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man.

She squeezed the left side of his face.

Life should touch you, even if life smothers you, it's better than remaining untouched by life

It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.--from Lo Siento

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.

To be rendered unconscious; to lie exposed, without shame, at the mercy of others; to be touched, incised, plundered, remade - this is what they are thinking of when they look at him, with their widening eyes and slightly parted lips.

She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or repellant about this man but because he has now returned to the ordinary level, the level of things she can see, in all their amazing and complex particularity, but cannot touch.

In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them.

Only a girl like this can know what's happened to you. If she were here she would reach out her arms towards you now, and touch you with her absent hands and you would feel nothing, but you would be touched all the same.

But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched

The worst of it was that those people out there-the fear, the suffering the wholesale death-did not really touch him. Crake used to say that Homo sapiens sapiens was not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of a primal tribe, and Jimmy would reduce that number to two.

Leif's hands pressed on my shoulders, muscles turned

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

the master bedroom with the cherry chest at the foot of the bed that holds the television, which rises up out of the chest at the touch of a bedside button.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.