Quotes About Tenderness

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.

I always was concerned about puppy dogs and pussycats.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

I couldn't kill a fly.

I've always been very fond of animals.

She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.

You are to understand that Lenora loved Edward with a passion that was yet like an agony of hatred. And she had lived with him for years and years without addressing to him one word of tenderness. I don't know how she could do it.

Remember when I was lying on your lap and you cleaned my ears with a Q-tip? What a strange, complex intimacy, your at once maternal and sexual tenderness.

And they put their arms round each other and kissed as if they would never let each other go.

He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he had discovered wings.

Michael took a cloth and dried her hair. When he finished, he pulled her close and cradled her in his arms. "Flesh of my flesh," he whispered against her hair. "Blood of my blood.

I promise you, I am not going to crush your spirit, Kate. Why would I, when that's what I love most about you? He kissed her forehead as though she were a child.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

It was mostly sweet, he whispered, and you were the sweetest of all.

the tender indignities of physical love, the sharing and communion of selves, the softness and the violence.

I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that for through all eternity.

Now, before I go to sleep because it is your wish and because it is so simple, I will whisper in your ear how much I love you

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni's cheek and said, "Mama." "Yes, my little angel," Vanni said with a sniff. "I'm going to be your mama. Yes. Mama loves you." *

Hannah snuggled close, putting her fingers into Vanni's mouth while she suckled. Then the suction broke with her smile. And without quite letting go of the nipple, she said, "Mama," in a very small, almost relieved voice. And Vanni began to cry. *

She shook her head against his shoulder. She inhaled his scent, remembered the lusty night that had gotten them here. She closed her eyes. Such a sweet memory…. And he felt one of them kick him in her belly. He pulled her closer, tighter, wanting more of that.