Touched Quotes
958 Touched quotes by 759 unique authors
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An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in…
— Arthur Golden
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Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves…
— Haruki Murakami
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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained…
— Wilkie Collins
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Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun…
— Leonard Cohen
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen…
— Charles Dickens
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I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something.…
— Francesca Lia Block
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A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but…
— Tao Lin
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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might…
— Silas House
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There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge,…
— James Frey
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
— Jeanne DuPrau
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his…
— John Steinbeck
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Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed…
— Nicole Krauss
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One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.
— Salvador Plascencia
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I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
— Jeanette Winterson
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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear…
— Mary Karr
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There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a…
— Jim Butcher
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Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...
— Cate Tiernan
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...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
— Tim O'Brien
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Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who…
— Nora Roberts
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