Quotes About Empathy

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

take your love and show them

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

The tide of life ran so strong in Peretur that she could not stop if she wanted to, and she did not want to, but it was her gift to soothe worries and calm nerves, so she soothed Rhodri.

Begu laughed, but it was a soft laugh, quite grown-up, and it made Hild long to hold her and shield her from the world.

Whatever she did she would find herself thinking of people who weren't there.

In my imagination I smiled back at her, then found I was smiling down at her because she was in a wheelchair.

She had found that people, especially people who spoke a different tongue, would get anxious if they didn't get to have their say in their own way, even if they spoke in a long rush, burying to get their words out.

If I'd known that all it took to worm my way into a woman's heart was to let her beat the shit out of me, my early life would have been different.

We sat silently, contemplating the ghosts we had created between us, and the difference between our world and that of most people.

If Gwladus was here, maybe the lady would smile sometimes. Maybe she wouldn't be so pitiless.

Begu was the only person who didn't make her angry. With Begu she didn't have to think.

When I was young, it was about winning, about making the other do what I want. But sometime in the last ten years…Well, I changed." She didn't look at Eric, but I got the impression their feet were touching under the table. "Now instead of charging at people, sword drawn, I find it much more enjoyable and productive to run alongside them, learn their stride and rhythm, whether or not we could run together in the long term.

I had seen her vulnerable, now she wanted to see me.

For now that they sat close Peretur understood that the cool depths she had dreamt of lived as much in this woman as in the lake.

She reached out as if to touch me and for a second I thought I felt her fingers on my cheek, then realized I was crying.

You musn't let her treat you as badly as she treats herself.

Artos is afraid of you, and I begin to understand why.

Her tenderness was unbearable. She was nine years old. She knew how to kiss me better: a simple thing, but one I could never have taught her. And I had come here to save her.

She could never be certain of the queen's feelings, but perhaps on this they were of the same mind.

When you understood what made people happy, you understood them.

Watch man and woman, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

She cocked her head slightly as though listening to a voice only she could hear.