Embraces Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores…

— Alice Munro

“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers…

— Mary Shelley

“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed…

— Cornelia Funke

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He stilled for a moment, savoring the sensation of being buried deep inside her, of filling her, of being joined together in God’s heavenly…

— Monica McCarty

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

— Francoise Sagan

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of…

— Thomas Hardy

“Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become…

— Cisneros Sandra

“She felt something comforting about his attentiveness; it was like having an earthbound deity watching over her, and she warmed in his sun constantly…

— Sophfronia Scott