Touched Quotes - Page 34

• Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Strong, People, Littles

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• She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Ignorance, Hands, Evil

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?

  Nicole Krauss

  Country, Hair, Car

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.174, Anchor

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• One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Forgiving, One Day, Scabs

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• I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Hands, Break Even, People

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Night, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Terrible, Trusted

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

  Mary Karr

  Heart, World, Dull

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

  Cate Tiernan

  Children, Tree, Stones

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.102, Penguin

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• ...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

  Tim O'Brien

  Land, Water, Together

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Charmed: The Donovan Legacy”, p.13, Penguin

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• Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Lying

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.85, St. Martin's Press

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• When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Doors, Knowing

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• Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

  Martin Heidegger

  Dark, Despair, Example

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• Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.

  Jeff Kinney

  Kids, One Day, Way

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Glasses, Unyielding

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

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• Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Hurt, Mean, Names

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Eye, Kissing

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• Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you." Richard stared back at him a long moment. "I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.

  Terry Goodkind

  Names, Long, Doe

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.403, RosettaBooks

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• I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beautiful, Strong, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 06, 2015

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• Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Believe, Eye

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