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Quotes About Touch

Like untuned golden strings all women are,Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.
~ Christopher Marlowe
inside or the outside. I touched paper. I spread
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
~ Christopher Reeve
You touched my flawed life so gently with love burning upward in dark steady flame burning me, burning me into healing.
~ Unknown
Can you imagine it, Alister? Can you imagine what it was like for a shade like me to experience the world again through all of your senses- vision and touch, and smell and taste and hearing?" "I wouldn't have gone to the library, I'll tell you that," Han said. Crow laughed. "I like you, Alister. All of this would have been easier if you were unlikable. And stupid. You would have been considerably more tractable.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
That—that's a Carthian sun dragon," he said, shooting a look at Strangward. "Isn't it?" Strangward nodded. "But . . . it is my understanding that dragons are not real," Botetort said. Strangward looked from the dragon to Botetort. "I assure you, this dragon is absolutely real. Touch it if you like.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Aku ingin melihat kehidupan. Aku milik rakyat. Aku harus melihat mereka, aku harus mendengarkan mereka, dan bersentuhan dengan mereka. Aku merasa bahagia kalau berada di tengah mereka. Bagiku mereka adalah roti kehidupan. Aku membutuhkan massa rakyat.
~ Cindy Adams
When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. " Important . That's one word. Everything . That's another. Loved ," he said, adding the most important word of all. "God, Darcy, you are so loved.
~ Cindy Gerard
He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're al together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking -
~ Claire LaZebnik
You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so...you must protect what you must protect.
~ CLAMP
Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
~ Clarice Lispector
The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.
~ Clarice Lispector
In the Italian galleries even the guides regularly fingered the paint surface.
~ Clive James
Latimer is a papist, he suspects: but, so far, loyal. 'How do you like Snape Castle?' She wrinkles her nose. 'Well, you know. It's Yorkshire.' She touches his sleeve, nods towards a window embrasure.
~ Hilary Mantel
Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.
~ Hilary Mantel
My sister thinks that she's the only one who can take poison, but I am poison,' he whispers, eyes half-closed, talking to himself. 'Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch.
~ Holly Black
Would you?" Mom smiles and touches my hair, pushing it back from my forehead. I let her, but I grit my teeth. Her bare fingers brush my skin. I am thankful when none of my amulets crack. "Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Isn't that beautiful? My grandfather told me that when I was a little girl, and I never forgot it. Unfortunately, I still like my milk.
~ Holly Black
I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.
~ Holly Black
His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.
~ Holly Black
I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.
~ Holly Black
But even with distance between us, the longing to touch him persists
~ Holly Black
It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.
~ Holly Black
Now that I've started touching her, I can't seem to stop. Like somehow the language of my hands will tell her all the things I don't know how to say out loud.
~ Holly Black
He touches my cheek lightly with his fingers. 'You- I thought-' I stare up into his eyes, puzzled by his expression. 'Are you hurt?' he asks. I shake my head. The prince turns away from me abruptly.
~ Holly Black