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Quotes About Touch

He grips my shoulder. His fingers dig in the knotted muscles in a way that feels good. Brotherly.
~ Holly Black
Exactly,' Cardan says, reaching out a finger to trace the shape of my ear. The curve, I realise. I shudder, eyes closing against the hot spike of shame. He keeps talking, but he seems to realise what he's been doing and snatches his hand away. Now we're both ashamed.
~ Holly Black
Her fingers are cold against his flushed skin. It's nice. He hopes she won't take them away.
~ Holly Black
I reach out my hand to the fire. Since I was formed of snow, I wonder if I will melt. I hold my fingers close enough to burn, but all that happens when I snatch them back is that the tips are reddened and they sting.
~ Holly Black
He reaches out and touches my hair, traces the hollow of my cheekbone.
~ Holly Black
They were sitting on the couch chatting politely with me, not touching, or so it seemed, except that I happened to glance down and I saw that their hands were lying next to each other on the couch, and that Nick was caressing Alice's little finger with his own. I remember being shocked by a feeling of pure envy. I wanted to be Alice, young and lovely, feeling the secret caress of a handsome boy's fingertip.
~ Liane Moriarty
Excuse me?' A beaming female face swims into focus. A woman has touched her on the arm and Grace is disconcerted, as though someone on television waved at her. She feels so remote from the world, from normal people, she thought she was invisible.
~ Liane Moriarty
Her mother's theory about germs was that one had to ingest and touch as many as possible in order to build up a healthy immunity.
~ Unknown
When a Were moves in like that it means they're offering support. Cat and canine weres are very touch-feely and bird Were have a whole elaborate protocol for brush ad flutter. Snake Weres like to get right up into your aura and breather in your face, all but rubbing noses like Eskimos. And let's not even talk about Werespiders. I shivered.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
I meet Silas at the movie theater on Church Street. We choose seats close to the front. He's wearing a striped wool hat that he keeps on the whole movie, and our bodies never touch. I've never been more aware of not touching someone in my life.
~ Lily King
The sauce was so spicy it made her cheeks glisten, and I had to clasp my hands together so that I did not reach out and touch her skin.
~ Lily King
We hold hands on the way back, but it feels like we're still kissing. My whole body responds to his hand in mine.
~ Lily King
Those who loved Ruth--so many--touched her hand, her shoulder, held her lightly, but no one could read the world inside other human bones. They could touch the skin and not feel the grief and pain it held only a skin's-width away.
~ Linda Hogan
Touchrue," he muttered in disgust as he glared at the offending shrub.
~ Linda Sue Park
Es posible —sugirió Shep, para ver cómo reaccionaba ella— que te concentres en el miedo irracional para no pensar en los miedos racionales. Glynis le puso una mano en el muslo, y el tacto era tan agradable que Shep tuvo escalofríos. —Puede que no hayas ido a la universidad, querido, pero a veces eres muy inteligente.
~ Lionel Shriver
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
~ Unknown
The rowan tree's graceful leaves and soft white flowers brush my arm like a whisper.
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
~ Tom Sizemore
Prea multe mâini dornice s? te pip?ie È™i prea puÈ›in? afecÈ›iune.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Luce put his hand on the small of my back. Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there's a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go. Or they place their hand on your head, paternally. Men and their hands.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Luce put his hand on the small of my back. Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there's a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.
~ Jeffrey McDaniel
IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS FROM SEX AND SURGERY.
~ Jenny Holzer