Tender,” she said again. “Tender is kind and gentle. It’s also sore, like the skin around an injury.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Another tear appeared and then another, trailing silently down her cheeks. This was so much harder than she’d thought it would be. She was usually so articulate, yet at the moment her brain seemed to...

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

Men are always ready to fight; it’s tenderness that scares them.

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was...

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every...

there have been morningsso quiet and tenderlike a poem, on Thursday’s lipsthat I wonderedif I’d been kissed at all…

If my hand on yours trembles it’s because bodies never lie.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone…Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the...

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness — but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

I don’t think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It should just be one start.

lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus’ teaching.What is indiscriminate compassion? ‘Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for...

…I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness – now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? …

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

may my touchalways…be tenderas i would strokemother’s cheekswhen she cried.

When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly. We must also view ourselves from God’s perspective: lovingly, tenderly,...

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it’s long blade gleaming as if...

He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer—-she still couldn’t say anything, couldn’t think of anything other...

in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects your heart with sweet, satiating intensity―a simple gesture that possesses deep, personal meaning beyond what anyone realizes? You know those tender...

Everything tender and melancholy – as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.

You don’t blast a heart open,” she said. “You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped...

Eyyia?” said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music.”You sound like a marsh frog,” she said, moving to stand before his chair.By the flickering light she saw him...

My father couldn’t warm my frozen hands.

Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.

SMILE Is Not Just A Word…. It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD…. So SMILE ALWAYS…. That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE….

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely...

He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila’s awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist...

You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyes—though...

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i’d use to paint a million pictures.

Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the...

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share.

I breathe in…the silenceof my own heartaching with tendernesswith memories..Of home.

Start here. No one’s ever touched me here before.

Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was...

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Tucker strokes my hair. There’s something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated….foreverin my mother’s arms.