Quotes About Empathy

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Me doy cuenta que sólo una persona quedará herida sin remedio si Peeta muere: yo. -Yo -respondo-, yo te necesito.

A avea ochi pentru frumusete nu e totuna cu o slabiciune, subliniaza Peeta. Poate cu exceptia cazului cand e vorba de tine Katniss.

Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. He freezes at my touch, but doesn't recoil. So I continue to gently smooth back his hair. It's the first time I have voluntarily touched him since the last arena.

Not to you maybe," she said. "But it matters the world having someone show up like I mattered.

That the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. Not like Rue and I do.

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

Don't let him take you from me. Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. No. I don't want to… I clench his hands to the point of pain. Stay with me. His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Aprieto los ojos con fuerza e intento llegar a él a través cientos de kilómetros de distancia, enviarle mis pensamientos, hacerle saber que no está solo. Pero lo está, y yo no puedo ayudarlo. [pp. 17]

Quieren conocerte Katniss! -Es que no quiero quue me conozcan! Ya mme han quitado el futuro! No pueden llevarse tambien lo que me importaba en el pasado!

I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?

Then be kind, Coryo," she snapped. "And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.

If she cries, he will nose his way into her arms and curl up there until she calms down and falls asleep. I'm so glad I didn't drown him.

Then be kind, Coryo, and try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us

Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have." He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.