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Quotes About Tenderness

Jacques stroked back her bright hair, kissed her eyelids, her high cheekbones, the corners of her mouth. Every inch of her was his, and he worshipped it tenderly. When at last his body took possession of hers, her eyes held the same message as his, her soul branded forever with his name, his touch.
~ Christine Feehan
In his entire life he'd never had the inclination to gather a woman up, cradle her against his chest and rock her just to soothe her—until now. -Maxim's thoughts
~ Christine Feehan
Mikhail's fingers brushed her cheek tenderly. It was so like her to have compassion for a man whose entire being was bent on murdering them.
~ Christine Feehan
Two very beautiful naked girls are crouched facing each other. They touch each other sensually, they kiss each other's breasts lightly, with the tip of the tongue.
~ Umberto Eco
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
~ Victor Hugo
Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
~ Victor Hugo
The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
~ Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo
Les bras d'une mère sont faits de tendresse et un doux sommeil benit l'enfant qui s'y abandonne.
~ Victor Hugo
She could become a child again, run and frolic, leave her hat on Valjean's knees and fill it with bunches of wild flowers. She could watch the butterflies, although she never tried to catch them; tenderness and compassion are a part of loving, and a girl cherishing something equally fragile in her heart is mindful of the wings of butterflies.
~ Victor Hugo
The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.
~ Victor Hugo
Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps.
~ Victor Hugo
Qué había esta vez en la mirada de la joven? Marius no hubiera podido decirlo. No había nada y lo había todo. Fue un relámpago extraño. [...] Es una especie de ternura indecisa que se revela al azar y que espera. Es una trampa que la inocencia arma sin saberlo, donde atrapa a dos corazones sin quererlo.
~ Victor Hugo
In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.
~ Victor Hugo
gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on the wing of a butterfly.
~ Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.
~ Victor Hugo
Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
~ Victor Hugo
She stayed in his arms as long as she could bear and then eased away.
~ Kristin Hannah
She felt the end of the kiss as deeply as she'd felt the start of it.
~ Kristin Hannah
she'd pull him into her arms and hold him so tightly, he'd remember how it felt to be loved.
~ Kristin Hannah
He touched her face with a gentleness that made her want to cry; it felt like a good-bye, that touch, and she knew good-bye.
~ Kristin Hannah
O amor não é um grande fogo que invade a alma e o transforma em alguém irreconhecível. Ele fica lá, acalentando o coração.
~ Kristin Hannah
It's you," he said softly when finally he was at her side. "It's you," she breathed, and then his lips were on hers, and he was kissing her in a way that made her forget the world around them for a few precious seconds.
~ Kristin Harmel