#someone should write an essay on hand holding in c&p and I myself would press their hand firmly for it

[wretchedvulgarian]

“So you pray very much to God, Sonya?” he asked her.

Sonya was silent; he stood beside her, waiting for an answer.

“And what would I be without God?” she whispered quickly, energetically, glancing at him fleetingly with sudden flashing eyes, and she pressed his hand firmly with her own.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky, pp. 323-4)