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Quotes About Tenderness

He looked me right in the eyes and slowly touched his nose to mine, stealing my heart and halting my breath. I held him close and he purred a tiny kitten purr that told me he belonged there.
~ Dara Lane
It's been a tough century for modesty, craftsmanship and tenderness.
~ David Bayles
She grabbed both of his hands in hers, squeezed. Then she rested her head on his shoulder, her nose nestled against his neck—she had to be standing on the tips of her toes. Each breath from her sent a new wave of chills across his skin.
~ James Dashner
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
~ James Joyce
He drew me to him and kissed me on the mouth, softly, without aggression. His face, which had ripped me raw with its stubble in the night, was smooth and soft now. His body was warm and hairy. And his cock—that ever ready cock—was pointing to the ceiling again.
~ James Lear
What he wanted was something soft and fat and gentle, full of rounding sweet places to hide in.
~ James Leo Herlihy
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
~ James M. Barrie
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
~ James M. Barrie
My father was the best man I ever knew," Roosevelt later said. "He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
beneath Lincoln's tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Come, my love,' said Míkál, 'and say goodnight to the dark.' And held him close, full of a sweet young compassion, as the little boy died.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond moved swiftly from Jerott's side to where the fine hair, curling like silk, lay on the Geomaler's arm; and bending his head, kissed the dead child, as he had not kissed the living, full on the mouth.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~ Agnes M. Pahro
It was enough to see her face light up when we heard the sounds that told us my brother was come home, or to catch the sudden tenderness that came into is eyes when he looked at he, to realise the depth of the love that had grown between those two strange hearts.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Boom. Boom. You might think of a heartbeat—your own. A child's. Someone else's. Or something's heart. And in that slowdown, you might think it's a kind of love. And you'd be right.
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
I really wanted to show that it wasn't all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all had together, times when we had fun, when we laughed. In the interests of balance, I even wanted to be able to describe some instances of kindness and tenderness involving us all. But I just couldn't. I
~ Alan Cumming
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart-even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best clothes.
~ Alan Marshall Beck
For me personally, everything is on a kiss.
~ Anna Friel
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
~ Jubin Nautiyal
She felt so lovely in his hands. She felt so loved in his eyes.
~ Rachel Simon
I reached up and cupped the back of his neck and drew him down to me, and we kissed again.
~ Rachel Ward
je ne te hais point
~ Racine
But her eyes would look cold, though her voice might be gentle, and her hand when it fondled would be tentative, unwilling. The hand would be making an effort to fondle, and Stephen would be conscious of that effort. Then looking up at the calm, lovely face, Stephen would be filled with a sudden contrition, with a sudden deep sense of her own shortcomings; she would long to blurt all this out to her mother, yet would stand there tongue-tied, saying nothing at all.
~ Radclyffe Hall