Lips. There was something strangely, delicatelyindelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself. — Cassandra Clare
My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.
— Rebecca Donovan
It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/ ... the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
— William Carlos Williams
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
— Val Edward Simone
All things are delicately interconnected.
— Jenny Holzer
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.
— M.F.K. Fisher
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
— Freya Stark
How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is. — Audrey Niffenegger
To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately. — Robert Silverberg
We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other's eyes. — Avijeet Das
There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn't heard, but felt in the heart. — Kirsty Eagar
Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids. — Simon Cowell
I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.' — Megyn Price
Life breathed spring (haiku)spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all. — Walter Bargen
And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
We are all made of glass. Snow floats around us. We are delicately made, meant to be smashed. — Nicki Salcedo
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately. — John Ruskin
And the daughter. Bit of a social failure. Well, that's putting it delicately. Quite overweight. Collects the cats, if you know what I mean. — Donna Tartt
He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book. — David S.E. Zapanta
There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul — Sebastian Barry
Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under — Barbara W. Tuchman
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real. — Amanda Hocking
Louisa raised an eyebrow. Is he - how shall I put it delicately - a simple man? — Heidi Cullinan
But that's precisely how stupidity flourishes; in bunches, in fast-growing weeds that choke delicately nurtured knowledge. — Sam Sykes
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious. — Mason Cooley
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf. — Howard Gordon
I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society. — Najib Mikati
The creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly. — Grace S. Richmond
She flicks her words like lit matches. They drop delicately, burning. — Kate Tempest
I'm all about that shit."Mom shoots me the Disapproving-Mom-Subtle-Lip-Frown.
"I'm all about that poop," I correct delicately. — Sara Wolf
The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them. — Wilfrid Sheed
