Quotes About Empathy

When I was mad, I didn't raise my voice. Instead, I lowered it to a register that you heard with your bones, not your ears.

If you lose it every time he tries to come clean, you're encouraging him to lie.

We sat at that table, neither able to comfort the other, her remembering being a bystander to my mother's suffering and me suffering because I was denied the experience.

I know who I married, too. You're in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones.

But how you feel love and how you understand love are two different things

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

You can never know another person's mind; this is one thing I have learned.

when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I'm the one who isn't pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don't know what it is like to be in prison, you don't know what it's like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

didn't want her to stand up for what was right, I wanted my mother to stand up for me.

When I saw you, I was looking into your face, but I didn't really see you. I don't have the right words to explain.

You don't know what you need until somebody gives it to you exactly the way you need it gave.

If you have a woman, you recognize when you have said the wrong thing. Somehow she rearranges the ions in the air and you can't breathe as well.

I didn't tell Celestial about the voices in my head. I'm sure she had a choir of her own.

You can laugh," she said with angry eyes. "You know how I feel when I'm here? Black and desperate. You don't know what it's like to be standing in the line to get in to see him.

my mentor cautioned me that I should always write about "people and their problems, not problems and their people.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. —CLAUDIA RANKINE

knew that things like this happen to people, but by people, I didn't mean us.

you can never know another person's mind; this is one thing that I've learned.

sometime that only thing that can cure a man is the inside of the woman, the right woman who does things the right way.

Sometimes I feel guilty as hell for just being able to live my life." I didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

Tayari Jones

A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.