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Quotes About Tenderness

He has resolved that I shall not miss the offices of father, brother, friend, nor the tenderness and sympathy of them all. And this man is called a mere man of the world, and would be called so rightly if the world were a place for angels. I shall love him dearly and gratefully to my last breath; we both shall....
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kit turned to him and blinked, candlelight cupping his cheek like a hand.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Kit held his breath as Lucifer came to him, tilted his chin up with a wing-tip touch, wordlessly eased open his tight folded arms with a brush of gentle feathers.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He tossed his head to flick his dripping hair from his eyes, and then wished he hadn't, because Baines climbed up the three swaybacked steps to the dais and smoothed the muddy locks back with thick gentle fingers. Kit flinched from the touch as if it burned him, and in his heart he heard an angel whimper.
~ Elizabeth Bear
David was a featherweight in his arms, a frail thing that smelled of citrus-musk and and lilac cologne and filled him with rasping, heated pulse. David stifled a sob against his throat, jaws working, lacerating Sebastien's skin as Sebastien bore them both down on the couch.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You fit well into the hollow of my shoulder
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
~ Elizabeth Elliot
I like to touch you," Claudia said, in her soft, sultry voice. "There are times when I want so badly to touch you that it hurts not to." She lifted one hand to his face and brushed her fingertips along his cheek.
~ Elizabeth Elliott
Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
~ Elizabeth Peters
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected twist in the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same way, regardless. Tenderness did not enter into it, except in a damaged way.
~ Elizabeth Strout
that hate Me" (Deut. 32:39-41). A study of the concordance will show that there are more references in Scripture to the anger, fury, and wrath of God, than there are to His love and tenderness.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
~ Audre Lorde
There's nothin' else I can do, but love you the best that I can.
~ Avril Lavigne
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~ aziz nesin
She angled her head to look up at him. Her blue eyes were huge in the moonlight. One tear still clung to her lash, looking like a shining jewel. He touched it with his fingertip and it dissolved, warm and wet into his skin. His gaze shifter to her bowshaped mouth. Her lips trembled, then parted. A soft mew of a sound escaped them. There was nothing to do but kiss her.
~ B.J. Daniels
She touched the hair curling at the nape of his neck, wanting the kiss to never stop.
~ B.J. Daniels
To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
~ R. Kelly
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. —Isaiah 40:11
~ Gary Chapman
I held her feet in my hands.
~ Geoff Nicholson
Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
~ George Eliot
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.
~ George Eliot