“If you can touch her heart without touching her, then you can melt her heart just by saying her name.”

“He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.”

“Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.”

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”

“"Just watch," said Sheila, touching her finger to her head.”

“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.”

“Even the stars can be measured,
Their arrangements and influences.
Her body can be lovingly touched,
but not her deep longings.
Those cannot be understood
by science.”

“That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.”

“There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-"
"Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?"
"Watch your mouth.”

“I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”