But just then he felt a kinship with them that stirred his heart.

"I thought only Kennit could stir my heart as you have," she admitted quietly.

Pity stirred her heart, but not for her dead lover.

She was singing to her flowers, and it stirred his heart.

"These aren't very romantic things to say, but they stir my heart."

The thought of having a son, he wrote, "stirs my heart and makes me write page upon page".

Why should that one word stir his heart?

I returned because it stirred my heart to see you.

Yet it stirred my heart, to see there would be a fight.

She stirred his heart, that he thought long buried, to life.