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Quotes About Tenderness

It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.
~ Faraaz Kazi
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, The Dead
There is nothing like the love or a child.
~ A. J. McLean
Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season.
~ Janet Morris
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
~ Saint Augustine
That's when Steve bent down and kissed her.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.
~ Max Barry
tenderhearted
~ Max Lucado
I am starved for tenderness and that is what is the matter with me and has been the matter with me for months
~ May Sarton
There is no need of words. Our lives will do, Long long enough to learn all of our love, While time, the river, flows gently below, Having no false eternities to prove. The night is full of unspent tenderness And in its silences we rest apart. There is no need of words with which to bless The daily bread, the wine of the full heart. Here are the peaceful days we cannot share. Here is our peace at last, and we not there.
~ May Sarton
A woman] will need to prize her tenderness and be able to display it at appropriate times in order to prevent toughness from gaining total authority and to avoid becoming a mirror image of those men who value power above life, and control over love.
~ Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education
~ Maya Angelou
You're a wonderful man, Steele. And behind that tough-as-nails exterior lies a heart of gold." "Yeah, well, don't feel the need to tell everybody that," he said gruffly. "You're the only one who needs to know that kind of information." She grinned.
~ Maya Banks
I just want to hold you for a while.
~ Maya Banks
God, but she loved it. His tongue
~ Maya Banks
to Graeme, kissing was almost as intimate as the act of lovemaking itself. It wasn't something to be hurried or to be offered as a token to woo a reluctant lass. It was an expression of regard.
~ Maya Banks
callous to the kind, not to
~ Meagan McKinney
He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Hey you." She smiled and traced a finger on his cheek. "Where have you been?" "Right here, always," Jack murmured, kissing her all over her face, her neck. But there was little time for tenderness
~ Melissa de la Cruz
For the first time, his wife was waking up in his arms...And if he'd known how it would feel to have her there, his heart bursting out of his chest and his throat so full and tight that he couldn't have spoken a word if he'd wanted too, Thom would never have been able to pass a single night away form her. He didn't know how he ever would again.
~ Meljean Brook
There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.
~ bell hooks
Eu realmente amo você — falei, tentando tocar sua alma com ternura. — Eu? Não Lunete? — disse Nimue, furiosa.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else.
~ Bernhard Schlink