Quotes About Compassion

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out." So it is the sanctity of life you cling to? I nodded. "That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne)

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me. Yet you would have shot him. I shrugged. I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

I really wish the "normal" people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn't give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.

I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine.

Watching St John rock his wife's body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could see the door, the hallway, and the stairs as far as the landing. St John started singing in a strange, broken voice. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he was singing. It was 'You are so Beautiful

Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?

I never forgave anyone for anything. A character flaw to be sure, but hell, everyone's got to have at least one.

Is he your only child? I asked, my only son padma said. My condolences I said....Anita Blake

He always seemed to know just what I needed, just when I needed it. If we weren't in love, then how did he do that? Hell, I'd been in love with people that didn't even come close to meeting this many of my needs.

Patting someone's hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn't have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass

I've seen what a whip can do,' Jason said suddenly. 'Don't hurt them.' I stared at him. 'You don't strike me as the self-sacrificing kind.' He shrugged. 'We all have our moments.

You make everything all right for me, Anita. You make me feel like a human being instead of a monster.' 'And you love all of me, Micah, every last hard-boiled, ruthless bit of me. You make it okay that sometimes I am the monster.

are always evil, whether it's the color of your skin they hate, or how many limbs you have, or how fragile you are; it's all hatred and it's all just fear. They

Why do you borrow such sorrows when they are far away, and I am right here?

There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

never mistake kindness for weakness, Asher. It's not the same thing.