#hand

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... ↗

— John Geddes

#bruise #hands #shiny #skin #transparent

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. ↗

— J.P. Donleavy

#plastic-surgery #youth #age

Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#owen-dunne #art

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#handsome #beauty

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #pg- #change

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#communication #connecting #connection #hands #holding-hands

Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#flogging #right-hand-man #death

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being. ↗

— Katja Millay

#miracles #dreams

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#able #bills #doctor #handwriting #his