Quotes About Empathy

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.

He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.

As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.' Clary opened her mouth and then shut it again. She thought of the way Magnus had always seemed to know how Alec felt about Jace, how Simon felt about her. Her feelings for Jace must be written on her face even now, and Magnus was an expert reader. She glanced away.

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.

And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.

My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

You cannot save people who do not want to be saved," said Magnus. "You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.

We are none of us perfect, and no one expects perfection. But when you have hurt people, you must allow them their anger. Otherwise it will only become another thing you have tried to take away.

To love one another is to come as close as we ever can to being angels ourselves.

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace could see you too.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die." "And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

She had wondered, when he'd looked into her eyes and said that he'd had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he'd been looking into for all those years. Who'd been his mirror. Now she knew.