Quotes About Compassion

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

I don't know why I ever helped you." "Because you like broken things.

Magnus took a deep breath and spoke gently. "Will. You asked me for my wisdom, as someone who has lived many lifetimes and buried many loves. I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. That is what matters.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.

As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad." -Jace

Unpleasant?" he finished for her. "Only on the days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually, I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." - Jem Carstairs

It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.

We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality.

We don't always love people who deserve it.

Do you think it's possible to do something so bad, even if you didn't mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?" Luke looked at him for a long, silent moment. Then he said, "Think of someone you love, Simon. Really love. Is there anything they could ever do that would mean you would stop loving them?

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.