{"quotes":[{"text":"There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.","author":"Ben Jonson","tags":["genius","greatness","madness","touched"],"id":30787,"author_id":"Ben+Jonson"},{"text":"- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["art","beautiful","design","heart","items","purpose","things","touched"],"id":52789,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"...She was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.","author":"R.L. Mathewson","tags":["murderous","progress","thoughts","touched"],"id":109085,"author_id":"R.L.+Mathewson"},{"text":"I touched you and my life stopped.","author":"Pablo Neruda","tags":["life","obsession","passion","passionate","stop","touch","touched"],"id":118577,"author_id":"Pablo+Neruda"},{"text":"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["murat-ildan","rain","touch","touched","touching","turkish-literature","wisdom","wisdom","wiser"],"id":132278,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["aliveness","companionship","feeling","inspiration","relationships","touched"],"id":150155,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.“Me, too, Gramps,” I whispered.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["crying","emotions","gramps","hugs","i-feel-you","touched","you-don-t-understand"],"id":178002,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["grateful","proud","touched "],"id":184511,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"},{"text":"I have become intoxicated again.You are such a potent wine, my friend.To escape your withdrawal effects,tomorrow I will drink in excess.Alas, why make me love?I was aware, conscious, and sensible before.I am ill by cause of this illusion.The devil plays tricks on me more and more.I was a harp you immaculately plucked at will.Your score, the nightingale song withinnotes composed to imprison and bear me wings.Oh, if only they could hear how it sings!I am now beyond parched.My strings left untouched.You are no longer an oasis, my friend,but a mirage soon coming to an end.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alas","aware","boyfriend","breakup","breakup-poem","conscious","devil","drink","drunk","forget","friend","girlfriend","harp","heartbreak-poem","heartbroken","ill","illusion","imprison","intoxicated","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","love","love-poem","loved","lover","loving","mirage","move-on","nightingale","oasis","parched","pluck","poem","potent","relationship","remember","satan","score","sensible","sings","song","strings","tomorrow","touched","trick","wine","wings","withdrawal"],"id":229233,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["human-nature","life","love","needy","story","survival","touched"],"id":272495,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}