Quotes About Empathy

Look, Corey, I know you don't like me. Daniel doesn't either, but he's being nice about it for Maya's sake." "I'm not--" Daniel protested. "It's okay. I didn't go out of my way to make friends in Salmon Creek. I know that. I acted like an ass, and as Maya may have told you, I had a reason, one that probably still makes me an ass.

She texted to say she was fine." "Then she is." Impatient now. "Just because she said she's fine doesn't mean she is, Gabriel." Silence. Ricky could imagine him struggling to process the possibility. There were guys in the gang who joked that Don had hired a cyborg who did a remarkably lifelike impersonation of an actual human. Gabriel wasn't robotic. He just wasn't exactly personable. Or emotionally literate.

You've found out something else. Something about you, not me." "Does your new bag of tricks include mind reading?" He laughed. "Only when it comes to you, Maya.

Daniel knelt and held out a bottle. I thought it was pop, then saw the label. "Beer?" I said. "It helps. I knew his meds had dissolved, so I grabbed a few from the store." Corey took it and twisted off the cap. A few gulps. Then a deep breath as he relaxed. Another long drink, then a sidelong glance at me. "Yes, I'm self-medicating with booze and I know that's not smart.

I wanted to try rescuing her anyway, but she said no." "Too bad dogs can't talk," Sam said. I glanced over at her. "Um, we're all feeling bad about Hayley," Corey said. "Don't interrupt by wishing we could question the dog.

Is that an apology?" "It's a Gabriel-apology. Which means that I'm acknowledging having done something that upset you and regretting that outcome, while not completely agreeing that I did something wrong or that I won't do it again.

I do not judge lives that have seen the kind of hardship I struggle to comprehend.

Corey was already gone, heading for the stairs again. He took them two at a time. Then he pitched forward, hands clutching his head as he let out something between a moan and a strangled cry. Daniel raced upstairs to help him to his feet…and Corey promptly puked on him. "You were done with that shirt, right?

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation.

I feel compassion for you, not pity. Never mistake the two.

Todos habláis mucho. Alguien tiene que ser la persona que no hable. La persona que escuche. (...) Es como ser invisible, ¿sabes? No hablar.

Odio cuando la gente me tiene lastima.

He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.

A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.

I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same, to end Margery's ordeal. I preferred to suffer myself than to know that her agony continued. Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.

Je n'ai pas gagné au tribunal […] mais ce que j'ai obtenu est infiniment plus précieux. Aujourd'hui, j'ai sauvé l'âme d'un homme.

Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people.

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London—and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same.

Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.