“But then I see the way he is looking at me, with such tenderness, and I stop.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. — Eugene Sue Copy Share Image
You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. — Chris Fabry Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“At the skin, my blood calls out to your heart, my whole sky craves an island of tenderness. My rivers tilt towards… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention… Our intention is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you “had… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his… — Rachel A. Marks Copy Share Image
“Can I touch you?” His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as his smile grew broad. “You… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated…forever in my mother’s arms.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
