“My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.”
“His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased.”
“i had never felt more at home here, here where the stars shone so brightly and the breeze felt like a lover's touch.”
“Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.”
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
“I carry a secret sense of accomplishment around with me, like a radium pack implanted near my heart that now leaches a quiet sense of relief through my system.”