"Their bodies were so close, so finely merged that she could feel the impact of
everything hitting him, she could sense the blows raining down on his back. She
could feel the bones of his cheeks as if they had been superimposed upon her
own; it was as if the storm had given them what life could not; it had fused them
together and made them one."
~ Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
