She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
– J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 11. Holden is thinking about the summer he spent with Jane Gallagher and how well he knew her. He really cares for her and even finds the way she holds hands praiseworthy.