“Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness” — Krista Bremer Copy Share Image
“Life is hard but it never loses its grace. If you aren't hard enough you cannot live but if you're not tender… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Caught up in the tenderness of the touch,Joey couldn't answer. Everything, he realized. He'd risk everything for Liam.” — A.E. Wasp Copy Share Image
“She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror. Dance. Dress.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis'… — Robin Becker Copy Share Image
“He only had time to feel all the tenderness he had ever felt for her surge up in one infinitely concentrated instant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish… — Agnes M Pharo Copy Share Image
“I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“The Price Love will probably kill me, Long before I fell out of it, Or madly in with another. It will rush like a… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Mary in Christianity, Isis in ancient Egypt, Demeter in Greece, Venus in Rome and Guan Yin in China have all functioned as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This would have been the perfect time to continue with his ravishment scheme. He could lay siege to her virginal clothing. Ruthlessly… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss,… — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“Soft and sharp at once, an aching tenderness edged with sorrow, naked proof of a heart already broken.” — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
“...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists and chefs don't talk about this, but sometimes you just don't get to the finish line.… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Lord Thornbeck lifted her onto the saddle. He looked her in the eye, and her breath stilled in her chest. There was… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me.… — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
