“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

— Holly Black

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American children's fiction writer 1971

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“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

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“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

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“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”

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“Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!”

“You don’t win,” Anthony snapped.

“Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

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“She was staying. A little longer.
V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.”

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“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

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“She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it.”

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Dying thoughts of Lena Feldt as a Spectre "eats the life out of her", Ch. 15 : Bloodmoss 
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
Context: She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
Thus she stood, bow in hand, indifferent, dead in life.

“She told me once that the year she went to England she painted her buttons yellow so she would remember what the sun felt like.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

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