Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren't holding hands, it felt like we were. Because what we had,…

— Kami Garcia

“She was fascinated by their hands. Two people, interlocked. Tightening their connection to each other.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I felt that she would disappear if I squeezed her hand, So all I could do was gently lay my hand on hers”

— Yuna Takagi

“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark…

— Gayl Jones

“It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having to ask…

— Paul Auster

“Unlike him she knew this and sat many hours with her head in her hands, I thought then, to make the words fall out.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I believe, and now I suspect we’re more alike than I’d imagined.” She raised her right hand. “You shall have my word,” she said.…

— Kathleen O'Dell

“And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it,…

— John Green

“He took her hand in his, both clasped on the table, and between them silence grew, an ancient silence that they both knew. She…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see…

— Jess Walter

“She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt. It seemed…

— Scott Hutchins

“I liked the feeling of her hand in mine.”

— Julie Buxbaum