Touched Lightly Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”

— Rita Leganski

“The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever so subtly toward each other made it clear that…

— Josephine Angelini

“For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric.”

— Anthony Marra

“Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected…

— Emily Dickinson

“When he felt her fingers, he flinched; he had not been touched with such gentleness since his childhood. He was no stranger to women…

— Melina Marchetta

“When we were young his hands had been soft but now they were a man's hands, with rough palms and coarse fingertips, but they…

— Jessica Marie Gilliland

“When they touched it was like touching her own body. From childhood they had been the same height; their arms and legs and hands…

— Jennifer Haigh

“He had big hands, strong hands. My entire hand had fit easily in his palm, his fingers easily closing around mine.”

— Jasinda Wilder

“The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.”

— Ally Condie

“seemed to notice touching as much as I did. If they grabbed”

— C.L. Stone

“It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year…

— Patrick Chamoiseau