#tender

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. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#poetry #tenderness #romantic

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#affection #come #do you know #give #home

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known; as a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or even the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; and which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened, for no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall them. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#memory #tenderness #dreams

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles ↗

— Deborah Heiligman

#marriage #tenderness #way-to-be #faith

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#anything #express #feel #kind #say

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#because #contender #could #football #good

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#act #becomes #endless #forgiveness #habit

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#father #get #great #having #joy

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#ended #hoping #i #joined #navy