After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic. " "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining.
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
The Devil. . . clutched hold of the miserable young man. . . and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.
I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer.
I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?" I swallowed. "Uh. . . sure. " My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
