About This Quote
The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly. Touch is an important part of human-to-human interaction, and touching another person is a means of sharing feelings. In this quote, the author describes a woman that is that vulnerable and fragile yet he still felt the need to touch her.
Source: Euphoria
Some Similar Quotes
- Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for...
- As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you,...
- Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
- There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
More Quotes By Lily King
- There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.
- The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.
- I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...
- Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always have to harken back to those first weeks when just the way he walked across a room made you want to take off...
- You don't struggle with these questions?"" No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have."" An American flaw.