“The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless.”

“I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected”

“Common thistle is everywhere,” she said. “Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another.”

“Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.”

“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a nice one.”

“Inside the house was as dark as an oil slick, so you couldn't see anything moving in the room but you could sense it. It was the same sort of sensation you would experience if a closet door were to swing silently open behind your back. Later I learned a term to describe that sensation - air displacement. What I was sensing was air being displaced by something moving from one spot to another.”