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33 Heartwarming Quotes You Will Relate To If Your Love Language Is Touch

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33 Heartwarming Quotes You Will Relate To If Your Love Language Is Touch

Because for some of us, love is a sensory affair.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.

— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)

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I taste her and realize I have been starving.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

Love Lust Desire Kissing Passion Sex

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

Touch Love Intimacy

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You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

Hugging Love Touch

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It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.

— Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (Outlander)

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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

— Rumi, Rumi on Love

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That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin.

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

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Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

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To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.

— Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust Book 1)

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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

— Veronica Roth, Allegiant (Divergent Series)

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Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?

— Cristin O'Keefe, December

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She thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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Something in the way she moves
attracts me like no other lover.

— The Beatles, Something

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your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide.

— Sanober Khan, Sanober Khan

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He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.

— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance

Love Lust Desire

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I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.

— Kitty Thomas, The Auction

Touch Lust Love Sex

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Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants: A Novel

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I remember that feeling of skin. It's
strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers
still tingle with it.

— Lucy Christopher, Stolen

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And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Touch Deprivation Lust

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Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.

— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised (Emotionally Compromised Series) (Volume 1)

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I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But I’m afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter across the universe.

— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series

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I remember your thread thin arms
I remember your hands
and how easily
it seemed to me
they could rip me open.

— Ingrid Michaelson & Matt Nathanson, MATT NATHANSON and INGRID MICHAELSON duet "Loud" LIVE AND ACOUSTIC

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There are two sensations of skin you will always remember in your lifetime; the first time you fall in love-and that person holds your hand-and the first time your child grasps your finger. In each of those times, you are sealed to the other for eternity.

— Alyson Richman, The Lost Wife

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Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

— Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery

Touch Communication

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Physical chemistry is not physical at all. Anybody can be attracted to another person, but when bodies move like they've known one another forever and eyes lock like you weren't strangers just a little while ago and lips meet like they were built for one another, it is a manifestation of something deeper. Your bodies are responding to what your hearts already know and your minds will discover over time. There's a difference between attraction and connection, and it's the closest thing we have to salvation.

— Anonymous, The Eyes That See Love

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There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.

— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.

Happiness Love Science Poetry Poets

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His body is
a mosque,
my God,
his strong shoulders,
his soft chest,
his handsome hands,
I hear the call of prayer
every time I lay
my head
close to his heart.

— Royla Asghar, The Prayer I Pray

Love Devotion Poetry romance Dating

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You are a shadow my body leaves on other girls.

— Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You

Loss Breakups Poetry Love Grief

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Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Touch Hugging Love Friendship

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Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.

— Minhal Mehdi, Minhal Mehdi

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Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived.

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Poetry Kissing Love Lust Destruction Wanting Someone You Can't Have

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So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right

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I touched you and my life stopped.

— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (English and Spanish Edition)

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