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.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: relationships manhood tenderness elliot
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 grasped.
Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.
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You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
Melody BeattieTag: love heart tenderness
To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.
Michael OndaatjeTag: rest fucking the-self tenderness the-unknown
Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.
Franny BillingsleyTag: remembrance tenderness
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.
Meg WolitzerTag: life passion food people time memory emotion remember eat meal tender tenderness eaten meg-wolitzer the-uncoupling
Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.
Cynthia HandTag: love hair tenderness clara tucker
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Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.
Brenna YovanoffTag: pain gentleness tenderness
My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.
Tahereh MafiTag: love hurt fathers tenderness shatter-me
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