Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.
-Mary Ruefle, 'The Cart', Selected Poems
Do you know why God created gaps between fingers? So that... Someone who is special to you comes and fills those gaps by holding your hands forever.
-Shilpa Deolekar
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
To have a lover's hands within our own hands, to become those other hands as those other hands are becoming you, is to be between two mirrors, is to be placed into the abyss of touch.
-Natalie Diaz, The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones
The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.
-John Mark Green
“Here is my hand,” he said.
“Here is my hand that will not harm you.”
-Louise Gluck, Epithalamium
“He didn't hold her back,
he just held her hand.”
-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart
