“Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all.”
“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.”
“Don't go," he says. "Your touch is the only thing keeping me from losing my mind.”
“Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”
“I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.”
“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?”