Quotes About Empathy

This book was started during the first wave of COVID pandemic, when pictures of bodies loaded into refrigerated trucks were coming out of New York. It came about because an ICU nurse emailed us and asked us to post something, anything, because reading our work on her short break between grueling shifts kept her sane.

We let each other be who we are," Curran said. "I don't have to like all of the things she has to do. I love her.

I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.

If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things, and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.

Because you can't lie, Kate. Everything you think is right there on your face. I've met kindergarteners who are better actors than you.

But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?

If it weren't for my mother's sacrifice, I would be Hugh now, sitting here, waiting for a crumb of kindness from someone I'd hurt.

I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh—what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

She raised her eyebrows. "Am I sick enough to require your immediate presence?" "You are." "And am I refusing all visitors except my precious nephew because he is the only one I will allow to view me in my sorry state?" Matias nodded. "Exactly." "The shit has hit the fan, I take it?

Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.

The responsible thing to do, the Head of the House thing to do, would be to send her on her way. This wasn't our fight and there was no profit to be made here. We were an emerging House, and we had neither the financial resources nor the manpower of MII. If I helped her, I would be putting all of us in danger. But she was a friend. She'd kept us all from dying at Nevada's wedding, and when I looked at her, my chest hurt.

I really would like to know," he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out." "How

In a child's world, it's all about them: how this affects me, how this makes me feel, why is life so unfair? An adult sees a problem and tries to fix it. They think of other people and they plan their actions aware of the consequences. They understand that there will be time to deal with grief and loss after the danger is over.

I made someone's day better. Today wasn't a complete loss.

Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike.

I like everybody," I told her. I thought I'd get her to laugh, but she just looked at me.

To Mother no was simply a yes that hadn't had a chance to hear her out.

And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.

You sent an assassin to kill a baby," I said. "A baby. My best friend's daughter." "If it helps, I wavered before issuing the order.

We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right.

He opened his mouth to argue but she put her fingers on his lips. "I don't require you to like it. Only to accept that I'm different from you.

They were fodder, but to him they were children, just like he had once been a child. Just like Jack. He had to find Spider. He had to kill him. Child murder had to be punished.

He invited me to his pity party, and I really want to leave.

He had a moment of compassion.