Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist
The Signal-Man http://www.charles-dickens.org/three-ghost-stories-the-signal-man/ebook-page-04.asp (1866)
“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“So listen to them, heed them: Who never touch the earth, can never be in heaven.”
Adam Mickiewicz book Dziady
Bo słuchajcie i zważcie na siebie: Kto nie dotknął ziemi ni razu, ten nigdy nie może być w niebie. <br class="br">Part two. <br class="br">Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_fore.htm
“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
Source: Tales of Burning Love
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Dark Reunion
