„If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.“

— Chinua Achebe
„And what, if you don’t mind me asking, is really important?”Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him.“Magic,” she says.“
— Derek Landy
„See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.O, that I were a glove upon that handThat I might touch that cheek!“
— William Shakespeare
„She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.“
— Cassandra Clare