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Quotes About Touch

Your kiss just seems too realYour touch the only thing I feelFrom your presence I can't seem to healA love without a sealThe faceless ghost in my dreams that I can't evade
~ Evy Michaels
Her hand warmed from his touch and she hoped the cloud-covered moon hid her blush.
~ Carla Reighard, Travelers
Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end.Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her.
~ Natalia Jaster, Touch
Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.
~ Natasha Trethewey
The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
No encuentro nada tan singular en la vida como el hecho de que todo parece perder su substancia en el instante en que uno va a tocarlo.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. Roland would have never touched me like that. Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
~ Neal Shusterman
Thanks to the priceless stars That flicker one by one My burnt-out eyes can see Dim memories of the sun. Hopelessly I have sought To touch the end of all; Beneath some melting heat I feel my pinions fall.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him.
~ Charles Bukowski
Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.
~ Charlotte Lamb
We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.
~ Andie MacDowell
It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?
~ Tillie Olsen
Might it not be the case that in a world where routine cognitive tasks are commoditized by artificial intelligence, it is the human touch that will become more valuable, the source of competitive advantage?
~ Tim O'Reilly
And if the air is chilly she feels it - in fact, if you put your hand on her arm you would know she still remembers how touching changed the weather, how a hand skimming the wrist was once a window opening onto a better season where people did better things than be lonely, where the wind was a river of candlelight pushing the blue silhouettes of trees.
~ Tim Seibles
if i were rain, that join sky and earth that otherwise never touch, could i join two hearths as well?
~ Tite Kubo
And the largest piece was buried beneath a pile of offal Ziller had gathered along the bridle paths of Central Park. Naturally, as the days wore on, the exhibition began to engage senses other than sight and touch, offering somewhat of a challenge to olfactory aesthetics.
~ Tom Robbins
Joseph Campbell was so conversant with the world of wonders that he awakened the potential for wonder in everyone he touched. He unbuttoned the secret earth for us and let the inexhaustible inspiration of Being stream through.
~ Tom Robbins
Much handled things are always soft(27).
~ Toni Morrison