“Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped, like perfect complements.”

“He thought about crossing his fingers, but clasped her hand instead.”

“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.”

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”

“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

“She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”

“You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet.”

“We don't fit in, you and me," he said. "We're both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together." He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other's. "We fit.”

“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”