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"Tenderness is the repose of passion."
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"No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch.""Good," Sanjit said."Good? Why good?""Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you."
"Mother belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away."
"I do know that I don't want to wake him.We were up very late last night."
"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."
"You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy."
"And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins."
"Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness."
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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
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