Quotes About Compassion

Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have to.

My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

boy with the bread.

That's who he was at heart. A protector. I don't think he would've ever won the Games, because he'd have died trying to protect Lucy Gray." "Oh, like a dog or something." Lepidus nodded. "A really good one." "No, not like a dog. Like a human being." said Lysistrata

I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

love you." That's why.

To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

The Covey believe you're put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it. Do you think the Hunger Games are right?" she asked.

You think I'm heartless." "I know you're not. But I won't tell you it's okay," I say.

The little girl who was watching me kneels beside a motionless woman, screeching and trying to rouse her. Another wave of bullets slices across the chest of her yellow coat, staining it with red, knocking the girl onto her back. For a moment, looking at her tiny crumpled form, I lose my ability to form words.

That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

It's Primrose Everdeen.

Katniss," he says. I go over to him and brush the hair back from his eyes. "Thanks for finding me." "You would have found me if you could," I say.

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us". ? Peeta Mellark.

I get a glimpse of the blond braid down her back. Then, as she yanks off her coat to cover a wailing child, I notice the duck tail formed by her untucked shirt. I have the same reaction I did the day Effie Trinket called her name at the reaping.

And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

magnanimousness.

Katniss —diu, i vaig cap a ell i li aparto els cabells dels ulls—. Gràcies per trobar-me. —Tu també m'hauries buscat si haguessis pogut —dic.

Want a sugar cube?" he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. "They're supposed to be for the horses, but

You've seen how people are, when someone they love is in pain.

Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

I studied the man in front of me. It was hard to see beyond the uniform and not see the German soldier, part of the occupying force, but if I looked closer there was a man, a person, someone with compassion and empathy standing there

Life is full of tests. They are not multiple choice. There is only one answer: Love

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