--- title: "1 Reached Arms Quotes By Ali Shaw" description: "1 Reached Arms quotes by Ali Shaw. Plus more from Ali Shaw and more Reached Arms sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/ali-shaw-12936_quote_carefully-he-reached-around-her-with-bot_2089688.jpg" --- > [“Carefully, he reached around her with both arms so his fingers locked across her back. 'You have to squeeze,' she whispered, 'or it's not a hug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/carefully-he-reached-around-her-with-both-arms-so-his-fingers-locked/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/ali-shaw-12936_quote_carefully-he-reached-around-her-with-bot_2089688.jpg) ## More by Ali Shaw > [“It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his hand in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/it-was-the-touch-that-made-him-realize-he-loved-her-warmth-from-her/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/she-guiltily-found-she-didn-t-miss-him-as-much-as-she-missed-company/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/a-clock-ticked-somewhere-in-the-darkness-this-was-the-time-of-night/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/the-sunset-like-a-blacksmith-was-beating-the-sky-into-glowing-red/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“Sometimes I just can't stop thinking enough to turn off.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/sometimes-i-just-can-t-stop-thinking-enough-to-turn-off/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“It had butterfly wings, like flakes of patterned wax. Under the wings it had a hairy body with tiny horns. Its fur looked very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/it-had-butterfly-wings-like-flakes-of-patterned-wax-under-the-wings/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/perhaps-you-think-too-hard-about-what-words-you-re-going-to-use-and/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/she-had-felt-a-collision-with-him-and-known-that-she-had-wanted-this/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/beeches-stood-aghast-in-pools-of-shed-leaves-silver-poplars-looked/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an object, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/then-there-were-the-negatives-how-he-missed-negatives-they-were-the/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“He said human beings were like a wind blowing. He said that sometimes we're loud and sometimes we're a whisper, sometimes we're warm and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/he-said-human-beings-were-like-a-wind-blowing-he-said-that-sometimes/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“the sky was something she’d so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/the-sky-was-something-she-d-so-often-dreamed-of-while-the-hoo-ha-of/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/writing-is-like-going-underwater-thank-you-for-being-there-when-i/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [It didnt take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/it-didnt-take-tragedy-or-war-to-derail-a-man-it-took-only-a-memory/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) > [“She dwelled for a moment on a memory from girlhood: smearing her tummy with a spiral of glue, then tipping a whole pot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/she-dwelled-for-a-moment-on-a-memory-from-girlhood-smearing-her-tummy/) [Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reached-arms/ali-shaw/#itemlist", "name": "1 Reached Arms Quotes By Ali Shaw", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Carefully, he reached around her with both arms so his fingers locked across her back. 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