Quotes About Empathy

I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you're allowed to need me, too. This"—he indicated his own parabatai rune—"means you are the better, other half of me, and I care about you more than I care about myself. Remember that. I'm sorry I didn't realize how much you were hurting. I didn't see it then, but I see it now.

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

This is the nature of having of a soul, Kieran, and a heart. We all stumble around in the dark and we cause each other pain and we try to make up for it the best we can. We are all confused.

I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.

There's always something about true parabatai. They don't need to speak to communicate. I saw the two of you having entire conversations without saying a word. It was like that with my parabatai Will. I never had to ask Will what he was thinking. In fact, it was usually better not to ask Will what he was thinking…" That got a smile from Magnus and Catarina both.

Family is more than blood

Who do we belong with but each other?

Funerals are always so sad," said a woman who had introduced herself as Irina Cartwright, staring at Julian with a deep pitying stare. When he didn't respond, she shifted her gaze to Kit. "Don't you think?" "I wouldn't know," said Kit. "My father was eaten by demons.

Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed

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.

She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.

Sebastian lay a few feet away from her, on his back. There was a great blackened hole across the front of his chest. He turned his head toward her, his face taut and white with pain, and her heart contracted. His eyes were green.

We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty

Ty's not my shadow," said Kit crossly. "My apologies. I suppose you're his.

There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall down the steps, as that was the sort of thing a man had to do in private.

I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.

La amaba lo suficiente para saber que ella estaría mejor sin él.

Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.