Quote by Oliver Sacks

“She practiced every day. She learned her own speed and her own explosive force. She learned the angle, position, and intensity of a killing…

— Kristin Cashore

When God made man she was practicing.

— Rita Mae Brown

“It was as though her woman's hand was assisting him to make some minute readjustment of the machinery of his life.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their…

— Kate Furnivall

“Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...”

— Jonathan Franzen

“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as…

— Milan Kundera

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.”

— Victor Hugo

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane…

— Milan Kundera

“Lifting up his hand to her, he said, "Here, madam, take the hand, or rather, as I may say, the executioner of all earthy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“She took no pleasure in using her skills to break his weapon, but deep down, there was a cold satisfaction, as if all her…

— Peter V. Brett

“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