Touching Quotes - Page 19

• Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch you suffer. Tory: Why would you do that? He led her hand to his face so that she was touching his cheek as he stared at her. His eyes and the pain in them burned her soul deep. Ash: Because I don't feel broken when you look at me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.458, Hachette UK

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• The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

  Thomas Hanna

  Hands, Feelings, Body

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• People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

  Anuj

  Heart, People, Deeds

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• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  Ted Lindsay

  Cheer, Team, Years

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• I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts

  Abbi Glines

  Hurt, Touching You, Choices

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• At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

  Emma Donoghue

  Hate, Doors, Opposites

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Care, Golden

  Instructor, Volume 103, 1992.

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• I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Thumbs, Way

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• And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Land, Clouds

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep walking, touching every faces I drop through my lens. I will show the world - those unknown stories of sufferings. If a single hand comes to give them a shade that is the real honor of my sweat

  G.M.B. Akash

  Real, Journey, Sweat

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• I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Flower, Dark

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• An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others

  Pope Francis

  Distance, Bridges, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.12, BookBaby

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• And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hands, Joy, Fists

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1582, Dell

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• Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hair, Hands, Wind

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• Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Men, Violence

  "Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Book, Writing

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• Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.

  Anna Gavalda

  Thinking, Talking, Bored

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• She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Lying, Mean

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• About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Lying, Father

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• It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

  Sylvia Day

  Breathing, Gideon, Losing

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• What are they waiting to see?" Sam follows my gaze and I shrug. "Who knows? You could always do a dance, or tell a joke, or... kiss the bride?" "Not the bride," he wraps his arms around me, and gradually pulls me close. Our noses are practically touching. I can see right into his eyes. I can feel the warmth of his skin. "you." Me. "The girl who stole my phone." His lips brush across the corner of my mouth. "The thief." "It was in a bin." "Still stealing." "No it isn't-," I begin. But now his mouth is firmly on mine, and I can't speak at all. And suddenly, life is good.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Eye, Life Is Good

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• Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cheer, Swings, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sacrifice, Expression, Years

  Jude Deveraux (2013). “True Love”, p.354, Ballantine Books

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• He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

  J. K. Rowling

  Healing, Hair, Wind

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