“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Variant: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!
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“Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.”
Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) American musician, hymnwriter
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
“Reserve your abuse for your true friends.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199712041852.KAA19364@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.”
Jerome David Salinger book Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Russian composer and pianist
Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.
“You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them. When you rise in anger, a great-grandfather froths at your mouth; when you make love, an ancestral caveman growls with lust; when you sleep, tombs open in your memory till your skull brims with ghosts.
“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet
"The Beautiful Changes"
Context: Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.