{"quotes":[{"text":"She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretly polishing and caring for it these months.And when she grasped the dagger, it's weight lighter than she remembered, Rowan looked into her eyes, into her very core of her, and said, 'Fireheart'.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["aelin-galathynius","alike","bonds","breaking-point","fireheart","friendship","heir-of-fire","mutual-respect","rowan-whitethorn","tenderness","ties"],"id":7794,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["fathers","hurt","love","shatter-me","tenderness"],"id":19228,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.","author":"Leon Trotsky","tags":["atheism","atheist","beauty","communism","death","dialectical-materialism","enjoyment","happiness","hope","irreconcilable-atheism","irreconcilable-atheist","life","love","magnanimity","marxism","materialism","materialist","oppression","proletarian","red-army","revolutionist","soviet","suffering","tenderness","true-love","violence","wife","youth"],"id":20693,"author_id":"Leon+Trotsky"},{"text":"Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad.","author":"Mawde Royden","tags":["atheist","christian","earth","equality","eyes","fact","faith","fiction","freedom","freedom-of-choice","glory","god","hindu","jewish","justice","kindness","law","life","love","mandate","muhammad","muhammad-pbuh","people","politics","prophets","religion","science","society","struggle","system","tenderness","thoughts","unity"],"id":21344,"author_id":"Mawde+Royden"},{"text":"Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["being-good","big-heart","big-hearted","cherokee-story","christlike","feeding-one-wolf","high-road","inner-peace","kindness","love","one-wolf","peace","peaceful-warrior","prayer","prayers","praying","tender","tenderness"],"id":29077,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["brutality","compassion","grace","mercy","savagery","strength","tenderness","true-strength","violence","weakness"],"id":44212,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped for five thousand years, the blood it will pump for the rest of his life—is nearly human blood. It carries with it, through his monster’s veins, the weighty, necessary, terrible stuff of human existence: fear, wonder, hope, wickedness, love. But in the Minotaur’s world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it.","author":"Steven Sherrill","tags":["blood","hearts","minotaurs","monsters","mythology","tenderness","veins"],"id":46564,"author_id":"Steven+Sherrill"},{"text":"Tender,' she said again. 'Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["gentleness","pain","tenderness"],"id":51217,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["glass-girl","grief","sibling-relationships","tenderness"],"id":54162,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"I want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....Foreverin my mother’s arms.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["arms","chocolate","cozy","deep-love","hug","indian-","mother","poetry","poetry","tenderness","warmth"],"id":58851,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}