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Quotes About Delicacy

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
~ Trisha Yearwood
My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.
~ Todd English
Consider, O Lover, my throatwhite as cigarette paper.The crushed lavender of my knuckles. My heart, a dulled needle threaded throughtoo many patterns.
~ Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
There's a certain charm to fragile hearts?
~ Karishma Magvani
Como somos infelices, queremos ver a nuestro alrededor, por todas partes, escenas trágicas, sangrientas y solemnes, y ya no sabemos celebrar la fragilidad, la delicadeza y la medida.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
Love turns a heart to crystal," said Mikey. "Much more valuable, but much more fragile.
~ Neal Shusterman
The world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.
~ Neal Shusterman
C'est l'Ennui! —l'Å"il chargé d'un pleur involontaire, Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka. Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, —Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!
~ Charles Baudelaire
her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.
~ Tom Robbins
The sky was a velvety black paw pressing on the white landscape with a feline delicacy, stars flying like sparks from its fur.
~ Tom Robbins
Much handled things are always soft(27).
~ Toni Morrison
The butterfly danced on the flower.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Slowly, the fire rolled down to her hands, and was this jittery flame and she was holding it. She was holding it in her hands, cupped together. It looked like what love must look like, just barely there, so easy to extinguish.
~ Kevin Wilson
Slowly, the fire rolled down to her hands, and there was this jittery flame and she was holding it. She was holding it in her hands, cupped together. It looked like what love must look like, just barely there, so easy to extinguish. ? Kevin Wilson tags: nothing-to-see-here
~ Kevin Wilson
Slowly, the fire rolled down to her hands, and there was this jittery flame and she was holding it. She was holding it in her hands, cupped together. It looked like what love must look like, just barely there, so easy to extinguish.
~ Kevin Wilson
The leaves of Lajwanti* wither with the touch of human hands.' A
~ Khushwant Singh
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
~ Kim Edwards
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.
~ Kiran Desai
Body and soul together give glory to God: the sharper the capacity for sorrow and joy, the greater the hallowing; the subtler the delicacy of the daily life, the surer is Christ proved in it. In office or home or hospital; prison, barracks, or church—anywhere at all where men and women are—the mystery of the Incarnation can bear fruit in bodies and souls all day and all night, too.
~ Caryll Houselander
Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
~ Cassandra Clare
A dainty rogue in porcelain
~ George Meredith
There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm making some scones,' said Mother, and sighs of satisfaction ran round the table, for Mother's scones, wearing cloaks of home-made strawberry jam, butter, and cream, were a delicacy all of us adored.
~ Gerald Durrell