Touched Quotes

958 Touched quotes by 759 unique authors

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though.… — Barbara Kingsolver
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief… — Neil Gaiman
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws… — Thomas Pynchon
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh… — Alexandre Dumas
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all… — Brenda Ueland
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. — Unknown Author
Driving to class with him. All I could think about was that it had been three days since I'd touched his face AND HE SEEMED… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time -… — Tom Wolfe
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream. — Dylan Thomas
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him… — Michael Chabon
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face… — Charles Dickens
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I… — Romeo Dallaire
you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into… — E E Cummings
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of… — Gloria Naylor
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted… — Markus Zusak
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet… — Ann Brashares
I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas… — Emily Dickinson
The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a… — Rabindranath Tagore
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my… — Jamie O'Neill
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you… — Ray Bradbury

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