“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”

— Kim Edwards , book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet

“I drifted for what felt like hours. Neither of us spoke; we knew better. Peace like this came rarely and was as fragile as a child's smile.”

John Hart (1965) American author with multiple books and awards

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“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”

Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England

To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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