Quotes About Empathy

Listen to them. The wolves. They're singing to him, for him. They know he's hurt." Jacques opened the car door for her. His dark eyes, so like Mikhail's, slid over her. "You are very unusual." "So Mikhail says.

Your woman knows how to deal with trauma?" Absinthe prompted. His woman walked on water.

And stay out of my mind unless you're invited." She was staring, but she couldn't help it. He was so beautifully masculine. Jacques reached behind him and captured her hand, lacing their fingers together. "But I find the most interesting things in your mind, my love. Things you do not have any intention of telling me.

He caught her hand, curling his fingers around hers and bringing it to his chest as he leaned into her. I'm sorry for being a dick. Sometimes I just am, but I'll watch it. Giovanni snorted his derision. Sometimes? Don't believe a fucking thing he says, Mariko. It's 'all' the time.

They had a connection, a path that lay open between them, and she felt his loneliness. She'd always been alone, and she'd accepted her path. Absinthe was different. He'd been with his family, those 17 people who still surround him and yet he was desperately lonely. Why?

Solidarity. She was with him. She would be with him through whatever he had to endure. He had that.

In his entire life he'd never had the inclination to gather a woman up, cradle her against his chest and rock her just to soothe her—until now. -Maxim's thoughts

Mikhail took her hand, pressed a kiss in the exact center of her palm, slipped her hand beneath his shirt, and held it over his steadily beating heart. "Look beyond my skin, Raven. Look into my heart and soul. Merge your mind with mine, see me for what I am. Know me for who I am.

Mikhail's fingers brushed her cheek tenderly. It was so like her to have compassion for a man whose entire being was bent on murdering them.

Almost everybody I met had a Christine Jorgensen joke.

The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

And this is true of all terrible crimes; it's the victims who must be respected and honoured, not the murderers

People must really adore dogs to fondle their warm bowel movements every day.

All my life, when children have asked me for money, I've told them to fuck right off. But you've taught me that there's a positive side to charity. Thank you.

he wasn't going to grow up to be his father. Charlie never wanted to make anyone feel the way he felt right now.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else.

It is a terrible thing to feel sorry for one's mother or indeed father. And it's an additionally awful thing to feel this and to know the impotence of the adolescent to do anything at all about it. Worse still, perhaps, is the selfish consolation that it isn't really one's job to rear one's parents.

I can't hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated