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“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,…

— Joseph Heller

“...it never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his…

— Elizabeth Wein

“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

“His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to…

— Ayn Rand

“Words would mean nothing, no profession of feelings he knew would never go away, no words of encouragement would ease any pain. But that…

— N.M. Sotzek

“Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything.”

— Joseph Heller

“We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace.”

— Peggy Tabor Millin

“How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness…

— Margaret Craven

“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self…

— John Shirley

“Every touch was a command, as if I’d been placed on this earth to pleasure him. Judging from the way my body responded to…

— Sarina Bowen

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas