Touch Quotes
4059 quotes by 2546 authors
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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they…
— Epictetus
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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
— Erin Morgenstern
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You’re touching me,†I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. “No,…
— Ilona Andrews
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People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask…
— Ruta Sepetys
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the…
— Madeline Miller
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Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to…
— David Levithan
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Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his…
— Melina Marchetta
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This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them.…
— Veronica Roth
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Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,…
— Paulo Coelho
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting…
— Ian Mcewan
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...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would…
— Philip Pullman
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For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.…
— Albert Camus
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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
— Veronica Roth
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There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see,…
— Joko Beck
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One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against…
— Stefan Zweig
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at…
— Fuyumi Ono
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