Quotes About Empathy

That was another thing about partners, she decided. They knew what would make you laugh, often before you did.

You know better than to blame yourself." "Knowing better doesn't always stop it.

And you figure because the two of you don't rub smooth she'll let things slide? Her eyes, colored to match her hair were round and sad. That's jerk thinking, Sumerset. Dallas'll work till she drops to do right by you, and I figure you know it. If somebody came after you, she'd step between and take the hit, because that's who she is. I figure you know that, too.

I'm not strong." "You're wrong," Eve said as she rose. "You came here, you asked to help someone who needs help. You're no weak sister, Mrs. Patrick, and he can't make you one.

She didn't hurry as she walked to him. Something told her he was a man too used to people — women certainly — rushing toward him. So she took her time, her long, slow strides flapping her borrowed coat around her chilly legs.

It would be sheer hell to be privy to thoughts and memories without some power to control and block. I don't like to pry into personal thoughts. And it hurts

I know what it is to have the one you love, the only one, hurt. There's a war in your belly, and your heart's so heavy it doesn't seem as if your body can hold it. This kind of fear doesn't have a name. You can only wait with it. And let us help.

And personally, I don't get murder. Why kill people when you can just ignore them?

Never in my life have I known anyone who has such a basic dislike of people, yet has such unstinting and bottomless compassion for them.

The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.

Kindness isn't a job, Eve, it's a choice.

Give her a cooey-dooey—" "Mavis!" "What?" "Mavis, I'm saying this for your own good. You have to stop the insanity. You sound like a moron." "I know." Mavis's eyes, currently purple, rolled. "I can hear myself, but I can't stop. It's like a drug. So

Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears?

Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? "I've

Even when I piss you off, you're going to be there. Like I'm going to be there even when you piss me off.

That's unbelievably cruel." "Nothing cruel's unbelievable.

Do you know what it is to find someone who accepts you for what you are, and is willing to love you anyway?

Often when a parent loses herself-or himself-in the day-to-day responsibilities and demands of raising children, they become a less effective, and less loving parent than they might be.

I see you. I know you. I love you.

I don't care for the fact that you have a point. ~ Roarke

Eve shuffled her feet, then sat. Then rubbed a hand over Peabody's thigh. You're just going to puff up his ego if he finds out you're crying over him. He's already hard to live with.

I know I say people suck, but I didn't mean it literally.

Do you wonder, ever, what makes a person capable of taking a life when there's no threat to his own or another? What makes them end life, and so often, so very often, with real cruelty, even with pleasure.

Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, and do everything in my power to wipe him from your mind.