Delicate Quotes

“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.”
― Roman Payne

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out
the sound of your own heartbeat.

You are the first drop of rain in a hurricane.

Your bravery builds beyond you.
You are needed by all the little girls
still living in secret, writing oceans
made of monsters, and
throwing like lightning.
You don't need to grow up
to find greatness.

You are so much stronger than the world
has ever believed you could be.
The world is waiting for you
to set it on fire. Trust in yourself

and burn.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea: The Graphic Novel

“Her love was like lavender,
delicate and melancholy.”
― Laura Chouette, The Painting of Mrs. Ravensbrook

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

“My reputation's never been worse, so
You must like me for me”
― Taylor Swift

“It was the moths that first revealed the change. Grey-tipped whispers in the moonlit night. Two or three here, a single one there. White ones slipping through the darkness, silent and seemingly harmless, but present. Growing in numbers until they erupted the quiet like flutters of falling ash. There was a music in their silence. The kind of music that attached itself to hums and vibrations in the waters of the earth.

The hums, the vibrations, all but imperceptible. With the dawn the moths vanished, leaving a broken land in their wake. The Elian River leaked out into fissures of streams and brooks that first appeared as watery cracks throughout the Faeran Valley. So small at first, we didn't recognize the difference.

But as the months and years passed, the Elian slipped further and deeper into the growing fractures of earth the moths had left. Trails of watery branches and veins that broke the ground until it couldn't sustain life any longer.

This is what we have against the Bremistans. The land is delicate now, brittle like old bones. And I fear it is aging beyond our ability to heal it....”
― Debi Cimo, Delicate The alchemy of Emily Greyson

“Her first love was like lavender,
delicate and melancholic.”
― Laura Chouette

“The snow is falling like a delicate rain of frozen mist”
― Jazz Feylynn

“The toughest battles in life are fought on the most delicate playgrounds of our minds.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

“Passions begin delicately and then they inflame the fire.”
― Avijeet Das

“Remember, she is much more delicate than you, yet you will see that she can withstand a lot. Under the worst of conditions, she maintains her beauty and her delicacy. She adapts! She is graceful.”
― Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

“I," she said, planting a hand on her hip, "am a delicate flower.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta: Two Years in the City

“The fabric looked delicate enough to shred with a good sneeze.”
― Julie Garwood, The Prize

“That which holds us all together is very delicate.”
― Donna Goddard, Together

“Translucent golden hair. Finely-textured white skin. Moist red lips. Delicate and youthful features that made sexual identity difficult to discern, but contradictorily, at the same time cast off a strange and alluring charm that sent a chill up the spine.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“I hardly exist and if I do exist it’s with delicate care.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“To delight in earthy pleasures,
Exposes how delicate humanity really is.”
― B.K. Sweeting

“Taking a metaphorical hammer to resolve a delicate issue tends to complicate matters more in most cases.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Let what is most delicate in your heart live boldly.”
― John de Ruiter

“Je ne peux pas être délicat avec les autres, mais je peux l'être avec toi. Je veux l'être avec toi.”
― Sarah Rivens, Captive

“ The citrusy tang of lemon floods the mouth!
At the same time, the rich aroma of almond tickles the nose!
Both flavors are seamlessly brought together with no bitterness or clashing at all!
It's sweet and mild and fragrant! I can feel it awakening the heart of a maiden within me!
"I chose a Biscuit Joconde for the sponge cake because it matched so well with the almond pralines. It gives even the cake layer the aroma of almonds, without disturbing the flavor balance in the least.”
― Yūto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 10 [Shokugeki no Souma 10]

“...she loved the first snow of the season, when all the faded browns of the sleeping earth were awakened into a new kind of aliveness, everything coarse made suddenly delicate, everything solid turned lacy and insubstantial. Magic that didn't need words to enact itself year after year.”
― Emma Törzs

“You have to introduce something like that gently,” Harrison argued. “Women are delicate and cannot handle direct confrontation like that.” “On the contrary,” Reese said, shaking his head. “Women are far stronger than any of us have given them credit for.”
― Merry Farmer, A Lady's First Scandal

“His cuisine struck me as delicate, for the Pudding, which had always been known for its delicious but none-too-daring gentleman's club cuisine, the richer, the better. Gus's dishes included dabs of steak tartare placed on top of thinly peeled cucumbers and studded with quail eggs; poached sea bass on top of a scoop of asparagus puree; potatoes mousseline whipped so smooth you could not detect even the flecks of pepper.”
― Charlotte Silver, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

“Look not to the past where you were embarrassed, for the most important thing is that those moments are gone, and you are still here.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“A mind dissected is no different from a body served - both tell their secrets in layers.”
― Mohamed Dosou, First Course - A Delicate Bite: A renowned psychiatrist. A refined killer. A meal you’ll never forget.

“He savored every syllable of their fear, as if it were the first course of a decadent feast.”
― Mohamed Dosou, First Course - A Delicate Bite: A renowned psychiatrist. A refined killer. A meal you’ll never forget.