Tickle Quotes

“How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture?Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through.I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.”

“I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.”

“It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.”

“Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.”

“Tickles are what power my giggle machine.”

“A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.”

“And one cried wee, wee, wee, all the way—" Jessica breaking down in a giggle as he reaches for the spot along her sweatered flank he knows she can't bear to be tickled in. She hunches, squirming, out of the way as he rolls past, bouncing off the back of the sofa but making a nice recovery, and by now she's ticklish all over, he can grab an ankle, elbow— But a rocket has suddenly struck. A terrific blast quite close beyond the village: the entire fabric of the air, the time, is changed—the casement window blown inward, rebounding with a wood squeak to slam again as all the house still shudders. Their hearts pound. Eardrums brushed taut by the overpressure ring in pain. The invisible train rushes away close over the rooftop.....”

“Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn't even know could feel.”

“—I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.—That went by just a little fast, Torl.—It’s terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man’s foot when he’s wearing boots, commander.”

“Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry.”