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title: "7 Hands Touched Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“I never thought I had a soul, but in that moment when our eyes met and our hands touched in greeting, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celeste-carrara/i-never-thought-i-had-a-soul-but-in-that-moment-when-our-eyes-met-and/)

[Celeste Carrara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celeste-carrara/)

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> [Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-briggs/do-you-have-any-idea-how-much-i-love-you-he-asked-enough-to-accept-my/)

[Patricia Briggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-briggs/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3f/patricia-briggs-571_accepting_do-you-have-any-idea-how-much-i-love-you_453780.jpg)

> [“Slowly he lifted his hands in the darkness and held them in mid-air, the fingers spread weakly open. If he reached out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/slowly-he-lifted-his-hands-in-the-darkness-and-held-them-in-mid-air/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

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> [The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwood-anderson/the-eighteen-years-he-has-lived-seem-but-a-moment-a-breathing-space/)

[Sherwood Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwood-anderson/)

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> [“My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, -- No, -- nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell', And with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-hart-crane/my-hands-have-not-touched-pleasure-since-your-hands-no-nor-my-lips/)

[Harold Hart Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-hart-crane/)

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> [“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rita-leganski/their-hands-never-touched-not-even-in-an-accidental-brushing-and-that/)

[Rita Leganski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rita-leganski/)

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> [“Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/their-hands-touched-for-an-instant-but-neither-spoke-silences-were/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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