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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Father, Sadness

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• Your craving should be for me, angel, not an orgasm. For my body, my hands. Eventually, you won't be able to come without my skin touching yours.

  Sylvia Day

  Angel, Hands, Skins

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.543, Penguin

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• "You’re different,” he said, touching my face.
  Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.

  Sylvia Day

  Sacrifice, Men, Faces

  "Sylvia Day Crossfire Series Four Book Collection". Book by Sylvia Day, 2015.

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• It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Fall, Helping Others

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.36, Penguin

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• The guy in the Red Sox hat came in with an astonishingly beautiful blond woman at his side. He stood close to her, and though they weren't touching, it was clear that they were a couple. They just belonged together.

  J.R. Ward

  Beautiful, Couple, Guy

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.190, Penguin

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• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

  David Levithan

  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Mirrors, Hair

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• Fang," I said, my voice breaking. "Just live, okay? Live and be okay." With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. "Ow," he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.

  James Patterson

  Voice, Lips, Warning

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• Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

  Paolo Giordano

  Destiny, Numbers, Space

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• Touching people is very rewarding to me.

  Della Reese

  People

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• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  Emily Blunt

  Self, People, Way

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• Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Stories, Wonder

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Blow, Office, Earth

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Jeans, Green

  "Maureen Dowd Tries Edible Marijuana And Has A Really, Really Bad Trip" by Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

  Blake Bailey

  Men, Giving, Max

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• It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Song, Prayer, Pain

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• When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Simple, Voice, Sound

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Support, Feelings

  Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books

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• In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

  Robert Klein

  Dream, Dog, Tunnels

  "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.

  Dawna Markova

  Gratitude, Morning, Crazy

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• Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Thinking, Ideas

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• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Women, Feet

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• The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Community, Done

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• You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Dream, Teacher, Teaching

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