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• Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff and then another one. His smile widened though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Adorable, Littles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hey, Hey You, Dislike

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1043, Penguin

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• "And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

  Lauren Oliver

  Love You, Lips, Should

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Laughter, Love You

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• Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever realize how polite you get when you're hammered? And you know what they say. A man's true charactor is revealed when he's toasted. So you gotta face facts, man. You're a closet gentlmen. Loser! The heck I am! Even Paris laughed at that.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Phones, Paris

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• Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams. It doesn't fell like metal. The colour is amazing". "Why?" (Trella) "It blends in. It matches your skin. Didn't you know?" (Riley) "No mirrors in my cell." (Trella) He gasped with mock horror. "So cruel! How did you ever survive?" (Riley)

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mirrors, Cells, Skins

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• All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Book, Dust

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• Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Letting Go, Running

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• Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Block, Writing

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hands, Missing, Hitting

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.226, Penguin

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• God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

  Anne Sexton

  Sea, Despair, Body

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.101, Icaria Editorial

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• Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

  Lauren Oliver

  Water, Leap

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• He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jobs, Hair, Needs

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• Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Real, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.

  Gayle Forman

  Cutting, Kissing, Simple

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.134, Penguin

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• from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Song, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 19, 2016

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• A burnt finger remember the fire.

  Alice Walker

  Fire, Remember

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Eye, Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2964, Bantam

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• How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

  Gayle Forman

  Hands, Unclear

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.119, Penguin

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• Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Mean

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• It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Middle Finger, Muscles, Bite Me

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• He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then removes it, and heads back into the living room. Whoa - well, that was either the dorkiest or sexiest moment of my life, and I'm voting for sexy on account of my standing here dumbstruck and giddy, wondering if he did kiss me after all.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sexy, Heart, Kissing

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.72, Penguin

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• My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Names, Locks, Lips

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless. "What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being a Druid?" "What color are they?" he asked warily. "Gold." He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Dark, Color

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.264, Dell

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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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