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“In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness.”

— Taichi Yamada

“That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She…

— Holly Black

“It was hard to accept that she had almost no feelings, maybe none at all, for me as a man. This hurt so bad…

— Haruki Murakami

“But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.”

— Saul Bellow

“She saw him and didn’t understand how she had ever missed his beauty. How it didn’t always strike her as it did now, like…

— Marie Rutkoski

“She had the sort of beauty that left you bleeding internally after gazing for too long.”

— Lydia Kang

“I could feel it in her, that volatile tenderness that could never forget injury. It was her weakness, her flaw-- that she would never…

— Naeem Murr

“She hadn't been hurt in any real way, had she? No one had treated her badly. I must just be overly sensitive to things,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Her bones felt thin and hollow beneath my fists, but her frailty didn't deter me. I wanted her to feel my pain.”

— Courtney Cole

“there. She’d learned not to grow attached to anyone, too fond of anyone, so there could be no surprises and no hurt.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening…

— Graham Greene

“She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.”

— Charles Bukowski