“Smiley writes of the unexpected tendernesses and unacknowledged disappointments of ordinary lives.”
“Leah Hager Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection.”
“I felt as if I had come into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be wrong.”
“In other words, the mutual tendings of all individuals in a given situation toward each other and toward a common object can be apprehended in toto by each actor.”