Quotes About Compassion
Belle's tears spilled over. "Even if I could get out of this place, I wouldn't know where to go," she sobbed. "Where is it, Lucanos? Where is my home?" The beetle sighed. He touched the tip of one leg to the place over Belle's heart. "It's here, foolish girl," he said. "Home is all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love. You carry it wherever you go. Don't you know that?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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And that lesson was perfectly clear: There is nothing more dangerous than kindness.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Know that you are a warrior... and that a true warrior carries love, courage, and her conscience into battle, as surely as she carries her sword.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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But then again, it's easy to love those who've done right by us, don't you think? A bit harder to love those who've done us wrong.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Lucanos nodded [...] 'She's the girl who sees with her heart.' Aranae rolled all eight of her eyes. She chittered again, in a scolding tone this time. When she finished, she crossed two of her legs and gave Belle a dirty look. Belle shrank under her disapproving glare, 'What did she say?' she asked timidly. 'She said your heart needs glasses.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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To love, to truly love another—that is not for the faint of heart. Why, I've seen a husband mop the brow of his plague-ridden wife, heedless of his own safety. I've seen a murderer's mother weep at the gallows, and a starving boy give his last crust of bread to his sister. Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. Me…
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Sometimes, Belle, our troubles are too deep for words," Lumiere said. "It's at times like those when we need our friends the most
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Watch a child die for the lack of a few coins. Do that, and you might start to understand a few things, like the difference between a theft and a crime.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Because he deserves a second chance," Love said. "Everyone does. My enchantress transformed the outer man to transform the inner. His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.
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His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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There is nothing more dangerous than kindness.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Love is a fearsome thing. It is braver than generals, stronger than fortresses. It opens graves and pulls rings off corpses. It sits up through the long, lonely night with a failing child. It fashions hearts out of scraps and bits and rusty things and makes them beat on, no matter how many times they break.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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She wrapped her hands around the bars, tears welling in her eyes. She'd been wrong, so wrong. Captain Krause and his men hadn't been pursuing her to hurt her; they'd been trying to rescue her
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Love was the same way.
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Now, now, Chapeau. You mustn't overreact," the Beast said. "All messes, accidents, and catastrophes are to be blithely laughed off." He looked pointedly at Belle. "Or so I'm told.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Astrid's eyes widened. 'What happened?' she asked quietly. Becca arched an eyebrow. 'Suddenly you care?' 'Yeah, Becca, I do. A lot.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Didn't know you then. Didn't care for you. Lost my family once. My little boy. You're my family now, Sophie. I can't lose you.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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She knew that even tiny wounds, left untended, can fester and swell and turn a heart black.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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I still had fifteen cents that I hadn't given to Pa, and I was using it that afternoon to buy candy for my sisters. Abby had her monthlies and was feeling awfully blue. She'd had the cramp something wicked that morning and had to lie down until it passed, and Pa asked me why she wasn't in the barn milking with the rest of us like he always does because he forgets, and then I had to explain and he got mad at me because it made him embarrassed.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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A girl who understood that a queen's heart was made to break. Over and over again. And Sophie knew that hers would, too. When crops failed and people starved. When plague descended. When war swept its red cloak over the land.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Love—real love—sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out," she said. "For some, perhaps
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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Officer After leaned across the seat toward me - which, under the circumstances, made me start back. 'I'm sorry I'm not allowed to beat the shit out of him for you.
~ Jennifer Echols
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