Touch Quotes
4059 quotes by 2546 authors
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Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple…
— Marya Hornbacher
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You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything…
— CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
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The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
— Aldous Huxley
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We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.
— Ruta Sepetys
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Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily.…
— Holly Black
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.
— Holly Black
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Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move!…
— Daniel Handler
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Hey. Hands off.†", "“Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.†"“Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots,…
— Nora Roberts
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The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.
— Paul Eluard
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Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I…
— Ann Aguirre
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Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to…
— Sophie Kinsella
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And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or…
— Cassandra Clare
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Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an…
— Jack Kornfield
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her…
— Victor Hugo
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If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to…
— Peter S. Beagle
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