Touched Quotes - Page 36

• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Respect, Nature

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• To Love is to be God.
  Never will a Lover's chest
  feel any sorrow.
  Never will a Lover's robe
  be touched by mortals.
  Never will a Lover's body
  be found buried in the earth.
  To Love is to be God.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Sorrow

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Jail, Contentment

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• He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.377, A&C Black

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• Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Sight, Where We Come

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• I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends." "It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always welcome at my and Cameron's house. Subject to a minimum of forty-eight hours prior notification.

  Julie James

  Moving, Thinking, Forty Eight

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.217, Penguin

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• Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

  William Stafford

  Grateful, Gold, Safe

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.99, Milkweed Editions

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• The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building." "But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Nuts, Feet, Car

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Shadowfever: Fever:”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Responsibility, Week, Mines

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• I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again." Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?" "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.

  Nora Roberts

  Hands, Romance, Pulse

  "Naked in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, 1995.

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• It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Book, Heart

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• You want to keep looking?" I asked. "Yeah, maybe." "I'll leave you to it, then." I started for the door. "No." He said it quickly, and reached for my arm, but stopped before he touched me. "I mean, if you're tired, sure, but you don't have to." Derek doesn't want her to leave ♥

  Kelley Armstrong

  Tired, Mean, Doors

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• I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. "We seem to get a lot of that, don't we?" I said. "Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption." I grinned up at him. "Sounds like a plan

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Long Walks, Feelings

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• She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know how to work this?" she asked. "No idea. You? " Daphne shook her head. "None." She reached forward and gingerly touched the surface of the stove top. "It's not hot. " " Not even a little bit? " She shook her head. "It's rather cold, actually. " Brother and sister were silent for a few seconds . " You know," Anthony finally said, "cold milk might be quite refreshing ." " I was just thinking that very thing!

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Dream, Greatness, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.282, Del Rey

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• Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

  Mary Balogh

  Pain, Moving, Past

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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• A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Weekend, Together, Different

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 02, 2012

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• I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Struggle, Heart, Light

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.37, Random House

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• They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Coats, Months, Lips

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Atlântico Press

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• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  Pablo Neruda

  Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

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• He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Sorrow, Fingertips

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Husband, Kissing, Mouths

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.219, Macmillan

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• Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Dream, Perfect, Focus

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• We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

  Richard Siken

  Stars, Hero, Violence

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