„Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it.“

— Diana Gabaldon

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„From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.“
— Henri Matisse
„What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?“
— James Joyce
„But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.“
— Cassandra Clare