--- title: "3 Kind Tenderness Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Kind Tenderness quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Kind Tenderness sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/janet-fitch-717_eagles_that-kind-of-tenderness-couldn-t-be-perm_1803067.png" --- > [That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/that-kind-of-tenderness-couldn-t-be-permitted-to-last-you-only-got-a/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/janet-fitch-717_eagles_that-kind-of-tenderness-couldn-t-be-perm_1803067.png) > [You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/you-have-a-different-kind-of-tenderness-for-everybody-you-know/) [Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/allan-gurganus-29322_different_you-have-a-different-kind-of-tenderness_1855636.jpg) > [“When I turned toward the hurt in the silence, I entered a kind of tenderness that was not sore, not wounded, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zenju-earthlyn-manuel/when-i-turned-toward-the-hurt-in-the-silence-i-entered-a-kind-of/) [Zenju Earthlyn Manuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zenju-earthlyn-manuel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/zenju-earthlyn-manuel-32613_tenderness_when-i-turned-toward-the-hurt-in-the-sil_2755491.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-tenderness/#itemlist", "name": "Kind Tenderness Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. 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