Touched Quotes - Page 39

• The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Heart, Breathing Space, Hands

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

  Nora Roberts

  Doors, Hands, Looks

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Light”, p.123, Penguin

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• I turned around slowly, and looked up at him. He stiffened and sucked in a shallow breath. After a moment, he touched my cheek. "Such naked pain," he whispered. I turned my face into his palm and closed my eyes. His fingers threaded into my hair, cupped my head, and brushed the brand. It heated at his touch. His hand tightened at the base of my skull and squeezed, and he raised me slowly to my tiptoes. I opened my eyes and it was my turn to inhale sharply. Not human. Oh, no, not this man. "Never show it to me again." His face was cold, hard, his voice colder.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Eye, Men

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• The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

  Kami Garcia

  Sneakers, Black, Toes

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• If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Pay, Calm

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Thinking, Little Sister

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Twilight, Men

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Sides, Hunters

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.316, Penguin

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• Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Opposites, Giving

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.34, Penguin

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• Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

  John Green

  Hurt, Violence, Courses

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.63, Penguin

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• Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Real, Two

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.385, Ballantine Books

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• Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

  Alice Hoffman

  Prayer, Heart, Warrior

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Hands, Sky

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• Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above— Oh, God. She closed her eyes. She’d been looking at his—Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if she’d touched it. “Fiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do.” Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her temple. “Do you understand?

  Karen Hawkins

  Powerful, Eye, Rude

  Karen Hawkins (2007). “How to Abduct a Highland Lord”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

  Ann Brashares

  Knowing, Half, World

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.142, Penguin

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• And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be held, by someone, anyone, the first one they can find who seems familiar enough, safe enough, strong enough to rescue them. They breathe, heavy. Hard. Their fingers strain at cotton. And then they slow down. Stop. Hold. Rest. Before one of them, or both, begins to sob. Before they break another piece that needs to be fixed.

  Lisa McMann

  Strong, Children, Two

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Rocks, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to learn about her magical powers, but she had taken his heart with her.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Loneliness, Taken, Heart

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.411, MIRA

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• You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Endure

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Romantic, Home, Hands

  "Fictional character: Sam Baldwin". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby, She looked at me, at a spot between my eyes, blinking like I had suddenly fallen crazy. She paused before answering as if to confide would legitimize my fears. She drew a deep breath, leaned against the chair. I touched her hand and I thought she might cry. Instead she put baby Davie in my arms Pattyn, she said, it's a woman's role. I decided if it was my role, I'd rather disappear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Baby, Crazy

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• It’s me,” he said, and cleared his throat. “I could understand if you didn’t believe me, but I swear on the Angel, Iz, it’s me.” Alec said nothing, but his grip on Jace’s hand tightened. “You don’t need to swear,” he said, and with his free hand touched the parabatai rune near his collarbone. “I know. I can feel it. I don’t feel like I’m missing a part of me anymore.” “I felt it too.” Jace took a ragged breath. “Something missing. I felt it, even with Sebastian, but I didn’t know what it was I was missing. But it was you. My parabatai.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Angel, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2251, Simon and Schuster

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• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

  Pema Chodron

  Love, Inspirational, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

  Pablo Neruda

  Blood

  "The book of questions".

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• Kyle gazed down at her. “I lied when I said I followed you to the bar because you’re hot.” He touched her cheek. “I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.

  Julie James

  Laughing, Your Smile, Hot

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.28, Penguin

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