Latest Quotes

“Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.”

— Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery

“There are two sensations of skin you will always remember in your lifetime; the first time you fall in love-and that person holds your hand-and the first time your child grasps your finger. In each of those times, you are sealed to the other for eternity.”

— Alyson Richman, The Lost Wife

“I touched you and my life stopped.”

— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (English and Spanish Edition)

“I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But I’m afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter across the universe.”

— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series

“Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.”

— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised (Emotionally Compromised Series) (Volume 1)

“I remember your thread thin arms I remember your hands and how easily it seemed to me they could rip me open.”

— Ingrid Michaelson & Matt Nathanson, MATT NATHANSON and INGRID MICHAELSON duet "Loud" LIVE AND ACOUSTIC

“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”

— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”

— Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”

— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants: A Novel

“I didn't want to be the one guy that — after we saw the ball go up, there were three seconds left, up four, we knew it was all over — I didn't want to be that guy that was searching for someone to hug.”

— Kevin Love, Kevin Love on His "Cuddly Embrace" With LeBron James

“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”

— Kitty Thomas, The Auction

“your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide.”

— Sanober Khan, Sanober Khan

“Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.”

— The Beatles, Something

“She thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”

— Veronica Roth, Allegiant (Divergent Series)

“I will be the silhouette in the window light if you'll be the indentation in the mattress.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, Tyler Knott Gregson

“We begin where we end, it has always been this way.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, Tyler Knott Gregson

“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

— Lisa Kleypas, The Devil in Winter (The Wallflowers, Book 3)

“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile. No sound sweeter than your laughter. No pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happines…”

— Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn: The Wallflowers, Book 2

“If you want to find me I'll be out in the sandbox, just wondering where the hell all the love has gone.”

— Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson (Video)