“Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there. I prayed silently.”
Source: Silver Shadows
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Richelle Mead 816
American writer 1976Related quotes
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I've Learned Some Things (2008)
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to thy Cross I cling”
The last lines of this stanza are also reported as: "Foul, I to the fountain fly : Wash me, Saviour, or I die!"
Rock of Ages (1763)
Context: Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to thy Cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for Dress,
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Vile, I to the fountain fly,
Wash me, Saviour, or I die!
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)
“Why are my hands this way
That they will not do as i say?
Does no God hear when I pray?”
"Here"
Tares (1961)