Quotes About Tenderness

Anyhow, what could be more delicious and delicate than a baby rabbit?

Dear Father, hear and bless The beasts and singing birds, And guard with special tenderness Small things that have no words.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

The garden is far less likely to grow weeds if we have been planting flowers.

Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

Leaning back into him, she let her body relax, trusting him to keep her upright. 'This is nice. Having someone to hold me when I'm tired.

Hawke." "Shh … Lie back and think of England." Laughter reawakened inside of her, bubbling its way past the raw burn of emotion. "I'd rather think of you." She felt his smile against the curve of her abdomen, his jaw rough with stubble that made her shiver as he kissed his way oh-so-slowly down her body.

The first time I walked into the room and saw Naya asleep on Lucas's chest while he slept, too, his hand over her naked baby butt..." Sascha sighed, rubbing a fist over her heart. "I don't think I've recovered.

God, I love you." She kissed his temple and for a second it felt like something in him responded.

I'm worth more," she told him, wiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "Affection, respect, tenderness, I'm worth all of that, so don't you dare come near me again until you're ready to offer it.

Sin pensar, le pasé el brazo por encima de los hombros para darle calor. Entonces, antes de que ninguna de las dos supiéramos lo que ocurría, nos abrazamos y los labios suaves y delicados de Annie se posaron sobre los míos.

If Christians hope to offer the world a credible solution to toxic behavior in men, they must demonstrate that Christianity has the power to address it first of all among those within the church's own orbit of influence. The Bible calls men to be both tough and tender, both courageous and caring. Men who know they are made in God's image can

in the secret code of flowers, a rose of any sort signifies love.

Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness...

A man should kiss his wife's navel every day.

When he was small he held the label inside his pillowcase when he slept. Only I know that. I was not a sleeper. His hand in sleep searched to find it. He would take the label between thumb and forefinger and just move it slightly against itself, over and back, as if the smallest friction was sufficient, as if with that he knew he was still in the world.

The work done, she lowered him back into place with what, in his final thought, seemed great gentleness. And then he was done.

It has often struck me as peculiar that there are so few words for love. the term is forced to span such a large area of emotion

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem

She shot up like one of the weeds in the barley field and grew tender breast buds.

The dogwood blossom was gone, azaleas in full bloom, and the air cupped my cheek as softly as a woman's hand.

Her tenderness was unbearable. She was nine years old. She knew how to kiss me better: a simple thing, but one I could never have taught her. And I had come here to save her.

She laid her hand, brief and light as a drift of hawthorn blossom, on Hild's head.