Tender Quotes

“He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can’t be two.”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A modern classic of love and longing, for fans of Sally Rooney

“with email you did not have the heft of the pages, the life of the ink woven tight into the paper, rushing across it, a thing that had come directly from the other person’s own hand. Or from the pen in their hand, which was almost the same; which was almost like touching them for yourself. In”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A Novel

“The previous evening, she had seen James bend down to where his father was sitting at the table and plant on the crown of his head a quick, firm kiss, like a kiss for the head of a baby; just in passing, just as through it meant nothing at all.”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender

“peered awhile, as through the keyhole Into my darkened, hushed, safe casket From which (I did not know) I had already lost the treasure. Emmet”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A Novel