“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he’s discovered a girl; for the first time he’s seen that even… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What fears you, that you are unable to see the kindness in a stranger's smile, to feel the tenderness in a lovers… — Sonia Valencia Singh Copy Share Image
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
“in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of you my body aches like an… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
The world may not applaud us for wiping running noses, driving in carpools, or talking with our teenager into the wee hours… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“The rage of the Beast Lord was a terrible thing to behold. Some people stormed, some punched things, but Curran slipped into… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us together. Only tenderness has… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“she was as unused to seeing tenderness in a man's eyes as she was to being caught off guard. Admiration? Amusement? Yes.… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness… — Susan Fraser King Copy Share Image
I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“When we've lost someone close to us and choose to move forward, there is fear in the unknown. We get to choose… — Tina Samples Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
