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“He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he had discovered…

— Francesca Lia Block

“The warmth of his mouth bloomed across my hand, and his nails skimmed across the inside of my wrist. Such great sensation from so…

— Saundra Mitchell

“I was all too aware of his hands resting on my lower back, their imprints like sweet flames that seemed to go through the…

— Markelle Grabo

“soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of…

— Bonnie Dee

“And, suddenly, I want to touch him. Not a push, or a shove, or even a friendly hug. I want to feel the creases…

— Stephanie Perkins

“She said families walk hand in hand. Granny would hold my other hand. I have never been abandoned by anyone. Even though my brain…

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“I hadn’t touched or been touched in years. I didn’t know how to anymore. Allergic to human affection. Repulsed by the degrading feeling of…

— Tillie Cole

“You know exactly when to touch the small of my back and how to softly say it's okay and one thousand other things that…

— Dean Jackson

“I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.”

— Amy Lane

“I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.”

— Tony Kushner

“My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love…

— Maggie MacKellar