Quotes About Tenderest

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, "Does anything trouble you, deary?

Heart, you are only the shell of a confessed desire wondering what to do next. — Tess Gallagher, from "Because the Dream is My Tenderest Arm," Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)