“None of us is delicate enough to touch anyone else without hurting them a little bit.”
“I would never touch anyone else again without thinking about her.”
“It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”
“Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
“Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it’s touch we’re afraid of. We’re only half-conscious, and half-alive. We’ve for to come alive and aware. Especially the English have got to get into touch with one another, a bit delicate and a bit tender. It’s our crying need.”