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Quotes About Delicate

Paraga was a delicate creature, with an elongated neck and large eyes. Long whiskers drooped from his jaws and enormous batlike wings sprouted from his shoulders. Rav thought he looked like the most friendly of the dragons, but it was difficult to tell from a painting.
~ Storm Constantine
The pain was just a small spark that kindled a greater flame of pleasure within her. She became pure feeling, devoid of intellect. The delicate petals of poppies drifted down upon her face. She was enfolded in feathers, in great wings.
~ Storm Constantine
His beauty made him ephermal, like a dragonfly.
~ Storm Constantine
The youth himself seemed to be made of shell; delicate and translucent.
~ Storm Constantine
Khaster looked vulnerable and beautiful. He looked pure.
~ Storm Constantine
The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren't looking
~ Susan Casey
It's nice to be thought of as soft and sensual.
~ Mariette Hartley
A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I love finding your light within the delicate cracks of my soul. There is solace in knowing that every bridge within my brokenness is being restored by your unconditional heart.
~ Karen A. Baquiran
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant
~ Milton Friedman
Well, now you can see for yourself that she was delicate, said Davey triumphantly. She's dead. It killed her. Doesn't that show you? I do wish I could make you Radletts understand that there is no such thing as imaginary illness. Nobody who is quite well could possibly be bothered to do all the things that I, for instance, am obliged to, in order to keep my wretched frame on its feet.
~ Nancy Mitford
My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.
~ John Carter Cash
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
~ Kirk Hammett
Here, in the valley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale...
~ Thomas Hardy
The air was a delicate cocktail of things foreign and familiar; both damply green and faintly musty; as sea-soaked as the oysters, as crisply refreshing as the champagne.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
heart-shaped porcelain face and
~ C.J. Box
Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.
~ Irving Stone
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
~ Isabel Allende
Angel cake is an American classic; a delicate meringue gently merged with minimal flour and zero butter, angelic because of its fluffy texture.
~ Rachel Khoo
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
~ Evelyn Underhill
One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance between expressing human empathy and yet not passively sweeping hard truths under the rug.
~ Ben Sasse
It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.
~ Vera Farmiga
She—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself—real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery.
~ Susan Glaspell
To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.
~ Susan Griffin