Quotes About Empathy

the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?

The best you can do is be honest with the people you love and hope that they'll care enough about you to listen.

Woo-hoo, everyone elses lives sucked ass too. It didn't really make Arias problems any easier.

Jenna can't hear us; she's blind...You know what I mean

I'll take good care of her for you,' Emma thought as she tapped her fingers on the leather-wrapped steering wheel. I smiled. She'd better.

Jenna can't hear us, she's blind

You have to do good things for people you care about.

I didn't want to talk, mostly because I didn't cry, mostly because I was numb. But didn't they realize I was trying to spare them from my pain?

also want to say one more thing about the content of this book. Influence includes a lot of bullying and nastiness, and I want to make it clear that it's something I don't condone. I truly hope that the internet becomes a kinder, more accepting place, not a more hateful one. So please, think before you post a comment. Consider that on the other end of an account, there's a living, breathing person with feelings. Be good to one another. And sometimes?

We haven't officially met," she said softly. "I'm Charlotte Chamberlain. I'm very sorry for your loss." ... "I'm so sorry, Char," she whispered... "We're sorry we didn't give you a chance to explain," Madeline said.

Sufferers are more than the sum of their suffering, but the rest of the world doesn't see that.

Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important.

People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.

You can't treat people's feelings as thought they were items on a marketplace.