Quotes from Tenderness

“People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word that really seemed beautiful to me was tenderness.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“Pluck my heart
From my flesh
And eat it.....”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“Eat my heart
Chew it hard
Swallow my soul, too”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn’t have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk … I love him, anyway. I love him because he’s kind to me and he doesn’t want my body, doesn’t want to feel me or touch me, like all the others … and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

“A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness

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