“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.”

“The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.”

“For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.”

“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

“To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love — namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness — this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.”

“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”

“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”