So be as gentle with yourself as you would a friend who just ended a primary relationship.

I gently remind her not to do this but I don't want to make it an issue.

Though I cannot say I made a gentle nurse, and Joseph and the master were no better; and though our patient was as wearisome and headstrong as a patient could be, she weathered it through.

What form we seem to them to bear we know not; we know only that we terrify even those whom we most wish to comfort, and from whom we most crave tenderness and sympathy.

Over and over in my mind, I see her face, her kind eyes, I hear her gentle words, I taste those apples.