Touching Quotes - Page 9

• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Always Trying, Heartbreaking, Unconventional

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• Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!

  Helen Fisher

  Kissing, Men, Skins

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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  Florence Welch

  Children, Voice, Singing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

  Jill Scott

  People, Soul, Levels

  Interview with James Walsh, www.mtv.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Baby, Feelings, Firsts

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• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Heart, People

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• If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

  John C. Reilly

  Real, Character, Acting

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• She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lips, Wanted, Ifs

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.153, Macmillan

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• They’re lucky I didn’t rip their arms off for touching her. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Lucky, Arms

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.1201, Macmillan

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• A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Moving, Airplane

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• And I don’t want his body touching something I wear. He’ll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You’re four hundred years old and you’re acting like a whelp. It’s not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Grief, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.90, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Touching You, Might

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.184, St. Martin's Griffin

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• This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be alone. With nothing but clear blue eyes that see through me and understand me. With nothing but open arms ready to receive me. To stand by me. To walk with me. To love me. I love her. Lilly. The Girl with nothing and everything. Lilly. I love her. A tear appears. She smiles. She leans forward kisses my lips softly kisses me and as our lips touch barely touch she whispers. I love you too, James. Our lips barely touching she whispers. I love you. Whispers. I love you.

  James Frey

  Girl, Love You, Heart

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• Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

  Anne Carson

  Winter, Eyelashes, Hands

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

  Mitch Albom

  Heaven, Packs, Ifs

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sleep, Understanding, Mind

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.222, Penguin

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• Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Falling In Love, Stars, People

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• Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Goodbye, Farewell, Would Be

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.391, Hachette UK

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• I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

  Sloane Crosley

  Reading, Airplane, Airports

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• I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

  Sean Connery

  Distance, Believe, Scotland

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• Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.

  Michele Jaffe

  Baby, Kissing, Thinking

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• Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

  Lisi Harrison

  Crush, Girl, Flirting

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• There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

  Anne Lamott

  Trying, Looks, Mess

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.190, Anchor

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• There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

  Julie Burchill

  Girl, War, Smart

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• It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

  Haruki Murakami

  Feelings, Void, Strange

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.17, Random House

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