“Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!"Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!”
“It's the difference between a categorical "Get up" and a tentative "What about trying to get up?".”
“While he’d been tentatively considering a possible romantic relationship with her, she’d fallen in love with him.He could barely speak. “Why didn’t you tell me?”Mason snorted. “Yeah, that’s right. Do you like Maira, check yes or no. Come on. You’re almost thirty, you’re old enough to go after what you want.”
“Unsatisfactory answers do not become satisfactory by being tentative.”
“Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints”
“Wobbly as I was, I felt ready for anything-in a tentative, baby-steps kind of way.”