“Sai holds the universe in his hand”

“He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while.”

“Can I hold your hand?" he asked.
I put mine in his.
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."
"I'm here.”

“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’
If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.”

“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”

“I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.”

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”