Quotes About Empathy

Strangers are treated as friends, and friends never as strangers.

Compassion - she was allowed to feel compassion, but not anger.

Now it would be foolish to deny that she wanted to understand him.

moods." "I can do that." "I'll let you go. Maybe if you see the lady—Naomi . . . If you see her, you could tell her I'm sorry about the trouble." "I'll do that. You take it easy." "It's the best way to take it." Chip smiled a little, then climbed into his truck. Since it was close, and he was running a bit late now, Xander got into his own truck and drove

The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 

but people like the Mercers, like Kurt Rove, belittle and bad-talk those of us who, well, have something that might help get all of us through.

Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He

He was good with women, he reminded himself. Probably because he just liked them—the way they looked, sounded, smelled—the strange way their minds worked. Toddler to great-granny, he enjoyed the female for who and what she was. He'd

As she spoke, as she looked out over the garden, Pilar ran a hand absently over Maddy's hair, left it lying on her shoulder. The gesture made everything inside the girl go warm. And made her sigh. What's wrong?

him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.

I accept that my father couldn't be there for prom night or high school graduation. I love him, even though the times—a lot of times I really needed it—he couldn't say, 'I'm here.

When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then

We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you've been the police, you just don't understand why people do what they do to people.

I'm the one who has to watch you worry and struggle. Do you know what that does to me?

Words are important, to everyone. When they're not said, they leave holes.

She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they sought was a killer. The state of his mind, his emotions, perhaps even his soul, didn't matter to Ben. Maybe they couldn't.

My family's caused your pain, she said to Theo and Maddy. I'm head of the family and responsible for that pain. Dad works for you. He was doing his job. As his stomach continued to shudder, Theo clenched his teeth. It's that bastard's fault, not yours. Is he in jail? No. They've yet to find him. It appears he's run.

In his experience you got more results with flat reason than angry confrontation. He just had to keep reminding himself he wanted results and not the satisfaction of a fight.

knew she gave him pain. But he

Prejudice and fear are never clear-sighted.

you repay kindness with kindness, then there's more of it.

You're going to buy him a car. He'd tell you anything you want to hear. See why I love you? You've got him nailed

And all he'd really bruised was her pride.

Sympathy covered Eden's face as she nodded.