Hugs Quotes

“As suddenly as they had reached for each other, they broke apart. Tears were rolling down Robin's face. For one moment of madness, Strike yearned to say, “Come with me”, but there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten, and those, he knew, were some of them.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“When the right person hugs you, it's like medicine. I'm so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Good," said Olivia. She paused before asking, "May I have a hug, please? I don't want to impose. But I very much want a hug right now.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“I wish I had a friend whom I can text at 2 am and we can just talk and laugh and send hugs so the world doesn't seem moving so slowly.”
― Nitya Prakash

“You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.”
― Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell

“A famous citation from the American psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916-1988) reads: 'We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. And we need twelve hugs a day for growth.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all she had needed had been for someone to hold her.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“My mama always told me there are few things a good hug can't cure, and those things are what bourbon's for.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Burn for You

“But I'm here to let you know
That I'll love you like you deserve
I'll treat you right
And on a cold, cold night
I'll shower you in hugs & kisses
And soup”
― Talia Basma, Being

“Love is vulnerable. Love is family. Love is Life. We hurt one another. We just do. But we also need one another. We all know hurt people hurt people. Wounded people lash out in anger and in fear. I like to call them porcupines. These are people who desperately want a hug, but if you dare hug them, you will probably be stabbed.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“she held him. he held her. all the noise inside and out ceased. the moon shined in through the window, but they glowed as one in their own light. there could be nothing else so special as this moment, no matter how long it lasted, it did not matter because nothing else matters, in this sanctum so pure”
― Bodhi Smith

“Sunsets are mother nature’s finest artwork; pride is nobody’s friend; readers make the most perceptive, compassionate listeners; silence is sweet; hugs and dark chocolate are emotional medicine; pineapple certainly does belong on anything ham belongs on; and motherhood will always be the most rewarding labor in existence.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“No one hugs, everyone is busy comforting with words.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I embrace people (with my arms) mainly to remind myself that I ought to embrace them (with my mind).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hugs feel good even when they come from strangers. Ergo, we should all be hugging more.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“My friends' hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

“Hugs to those of you who need one!”
― Nitya Prakash

“Tremors hit, quaking her hard enough for him to feel them. He wrapped his arms around her and bent his face close to hers. He might not understand what was going on in her head, but a mighty squall was battering her hull, and if he couldn't figure out how to shelter her from it, he aimed to be her anchor until it passed.”
― Karen Witemeyer, More Than Words Can Say

“The menu at the Hug Deli included, among other items, the Warm and Fuzzy Hug, the Beverly Hills Air Kiss Hug, and the Gangsta Hug, with side orders of Pinch, Tickle, and Back Scratch. She ordered the Long Uncomfortable Hug, because she thought that was funny, thereby prompting a nut-brown Venice Beach-looking dude to hold on to her, earnestly pokerfaced, for a seeming eternity.
"Are you uncomfortable yet?"
"Fairly, yes."
"Excellent. My work here is done."
She laughed and mounted on her bike, pedalling away from the zany mirage as her gratuitous hugger shouted "Namaste" in her direction.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“I'm really going to miss you," I blurted out. "We all are."
I braced myself for a biting, sarcastic reply. Instead, she suddenly stepped forward and wrapped her arms around me. So tight, it didn't really feel like a hug, more like a death grip, like I was the last raft on a dark and stormy ocean.
I let her hold on. I breathed in the smell of her knotted curls. Vanilla and chewing gum. I felt the rise and fall of her chest. The small buds of her breasts though her baggy jumper. I wished that we could stay like that forever. That she wouldn't ever tear herself away.”
― C.J. Tudor

“Dear Rejection, Failure, Disappointment, Hopelessness, Struggle, Joy, Success, Purpose and my most beloved Life.

Happy Teacher’s Day

Thanks n Hugs”
― PRATISH R NAIR

“He gave Carter’s shoulders another squeeze to reassure him that he had his back. Well, and also because hugging Carter was like eating a Lay’s potato chip—physically impossible to stop at just one.”
― Stella Starling, The Boyfriend Game

“When the initial hugs are hugged out, the stories told, and the reunions over, many of us find that coming back home isn’t really coming home at all. Our true home is being surrounded by the unknown. The road is where we belong. And because of that, our gaze will always be on the horizon, looking, dreaming, and wishing for another opportunity to get away again. Time for some more hellos!”
― Nitya Prakash

“Mama hugs me
and I hold her back.
Sometimes all you can do is
hold on.”
― Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

“Love is hands, holding you.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“The scrib brightened. An image appeared, and in an instant, there was no air in the room, no floor beneath her. She would have fallen had she not been sitting. And even so, she still felt like she was falling, but now, there was a warm pair of arms that would catch her at the end, a warm pair of arms she'd always imagined but could never feel.
'Oh,' Pepper choked. 'Oh, stars--”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Then you remember that you are a poet and wanderer whose life resembles that of a soldier.

And you wait eagerly for the holidays to go home and get the hugs from your two Sweethearts.”
― Avijeet Das

“Hugs are okay. Hugs are manly (as long as you thump them on the back).”
― Daniel Thorman, Mayhem at the Mill

“I have a bad habit of hugging people when I am very happy, so every one who does not wish to be embraced had better keep away.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“I haven't seen my father in nine years. There are no hugs. Hugs are luxuries of the weak, and the Yates family tree is carved from petrified wood.

[Rose Yates]”
― Carter Wilson