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Quotes About Tenderness

Next morning—bright and cheerful out of doors—stole softened in through the blinds of the silent room, and suffused the couch and its occupant with a mellow, tender glow. Edgar Linton had his head laid on the pillow, and his eyes shut. His young and fair features were almost as deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed: but his was the hush of exhausted anguish, and hers of perfect peace.
~ Emily Bronte
This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - That simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty - Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - Judge tenderly - of Me
~ Emily Dickinson
I must be cruel, only to be kind
~ Emma Donoghue
heartedness
~ Enid Blyton
I happen to be really a romantic.
~ Amanda Seyfried
He says, I prepared some… and then he squeezes my hands tightly and he begins to cry. "I love you so much," he says. "That's all I can say. I love you so, so much and I will love you every day of my life.
~ Amy Bloom
Tom lifted his other hand and rested it lightly on Reese's slim hip, barely holding on. "I want to kiss you.
~ Amy Jo Cousins
and his head and shoulders were on the bed next to the boy who had captured his heart like cupped hands would capture a butterfly, and had never, ever clutched him too tight and never let him go.
~ Amy Lane
Surprisingly, their next kiss generated some heat, and the next, and the next, because touching Will without heat, without tenderness, without heart, turned out to be something Kenny absolutely could not do.
~ Amy Lane
Jason liked to do things—touchy things—that had nothing to do with "This will get your dick hard" and everything to do with "This will make your heart beat and your chest swell and your stomach erupt into butterflies, and you will weep wanting to be touched like that some more.
~ Amy Lane
Kids were his soft spot. Who knew?
~ Amy Lane
It was nothing at first. Just a bare brush of lips to lips.
~ Amy Lane
And then Spencer did a surprising thing. He closed his eyes and leaned into the touch, like someone starving for it, someone who'd needed tenderness all his
~ Amy Lane
Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you.
~ Anatole France
To explain De Sica, we must go back to the source of his art, namely to his tenderness, his love. The quality shared in common by Miracolo a Milano and Ladri di Biciclette, in spite of differences more apparent than real, is De Sica's inexhaustible affection for his characters.
~ André Bazin
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
~ Andre Gide
Cette nuit, il y a dans notre façon d'aimer une douceur inhabituelle, comme si nous nous retrouvions après une très longue séparation, après avoir beaucoup souffert et vieilli.
~ Andreï Makine
The colonel reached up and brushed a curl back from Carrie's cheek, tucking it behind her ear. His gentle touch was healing salve for her aching heart. His eyes held hers for several long seconds. Then in seemingly one smooth motion, he dropped his hand and stood. "Good night, Miss Bell—er, Carrie Ann." He gave her a polite little bow, but his eyes held a certain light. He genuinely cared about her.
~ Andrea Boeshaar
When the line of incoming guests ended, Peyton put his arm around Carrie's waist. She looked enchanting tonight with her reddish-brown tresses pulled back off her face save for the ringlets that brushed against her bare shoulders. Her skin glowed with softness, and Peyton longed to kiss his way down her neck and across her collarbone.
~ Andrea Boeshaar
You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn't have to be sweetness and light.
~ Tony Harrison
I don't show it but I'm actually quite a softie deep down.
~ Maura Higgins
I'm definitely an animal lover.
~ Tom Payne
There is no definition to love. It is a feeling.
~ Shoojit Sircar
Le premier baiser à la tempe, le premier murmure à l'oreille n'ont jamais reçu équivalence de musique ou de parole
~ Rina Lasnier