Human-touch Quote by Carson McCullers

“His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw. Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone. Impatience, in the soft thrum…

— Ellen Hopkins

“A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent…

— Nalini Singh

“The man was dangerous to the senses. Her eyes feasted on his sculpted muscles, her ears listened to his laughter as he joked with…

— Mila Rossi

“At times he heard within him a soft, gentle voice, which reminded him quietly, complained quietly, so that he could hardly hear it. Then…

— Hesse, Hermann

“Nevertheless, he finally felt the familiar calm descend on him that he recognized from his years of dealing with fucked-up, hectic situations, which allowed…

— Thomas Olde Heuvelt

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to waiting for him and everyone…

— Joseph Heller

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of…

— Louise Erdrich

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“The feeling he had nourished and given prominence to was one of thankfulness for his escape: he was like a traveller so grateful for…

— Edith Wharton