Carter Mays

“It was as if just yesterday I was kneeling alongside grandma to pray. She would tell me to pray for my mom. I'd put my little hands together, lower my head and quietly I would talk to a God I couldn't see.”
― Cyndee Melzow, When Tender Is the Heart

“I'm thinking about a verse in the bible. It's somewhere in the book of Isaiah. It talks about a mother leaving behind her child, not having compassion for the child she carried in her womb.
Are you making that up?
No, it goes on to say the mother forgot about her child, but God never did.”
― Cyndee Melzow, When Tender Is the Heart

“That night when you and I met at the bar, it was the first time in my life I felt safe around a man. When you took me in your arms and held me on the dance floor, it felt like someone had cleaned me of my past. I wanted that moment to last forever. I went from being your childhood friend to being the grown up girl in your arms. I fell in love.”
― Cyndee Melzow, When Tender Is the Heart