Quotes About Empathy

watched the people I know best look at me like I was a crazy person. Trust me. It's a look I know pretty well.

But that's a girl's right—isn't it? To cry sometimes for no reason? Really, when you think about it, that ought to be in the Constitution. Maybe I'll break into the National Archives sometime and write that in. Bex

it kept him from seeing the tears that were forming at the corners of my eyes, threatening to test the waterproofness of Macey's new mascara

But the woman smiles, unable to hear the things I don't say.

Katarina Bishop was a criminal. But she'd never held a gun. She'd never thrown a punch. Until that moment she didn't really know how it felt to hurt someone, and as soon as she saw the look on Hale's face, she wanted to take the words back. And she wished she could make them hurt more. Both.

Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.

The worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

Megan is coming down the street, and when she sees me and Lila together, for a split second it looks like she wants to run. Save herself. And I can't say I blame her.

I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know that you think that the only things that are left in the world are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam. - Macey

Katarina Bishop bir suçluydu. Ama o güne dek eline hiç silah almam??t?. Kimseye vurmam??t?. O ana kadar birinin can?n? yakmak nas?l bir ÅŸey, bilmiyordu. Hale'in yüzündeki ifadeyi gördüÄŸünde, sözlerini geri almak istedi. Ayn? zamanda bu sözlerin onun can?n? daha fazla ac?tmas?n? da istedi. (syf. 181)

I know Macey McHenry, but that night, sitting on that staircase, I realized I'd never know what it's like to *be* her.

A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

porque un fracaso compartido une más que una victoria común.

Para hacerme sentir que, con cada cuerpo que se desplomaba ante una tapia de ladrillos rojos, volvían a matarlos a todos, a matarnos con ellos, a quitarnos a todas un pedazo de vida en cada ausencia

Entonces le toca aprender que la venganza nunca da, que siempre quita, y a medida que va pasando el tiempo, el rencor desdibujándose en la monótona grisura de los días sin emoción, los celos dejarán de morderla para tumbarse a sus pies como un perro saciado de su rabia, y empezará a soñar con él, dormida y sobre todo despierta, tal y como era cuando le conoció, tan joven, tan guapo, tan digno de su amor.

Self pity is a hard drug.

La autocompasión es una droga muy dura.

Sin embargo, con el tiempo comprendí que la alegría era un arma superior al odio, las sonrisas más útiles, más feroces que los gestos de rabia y desaliento

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Because we; out of our love for these women who hold our hearts in their hands, have and still would do all manner of things to keep them safe." Hill gave a half shrug. "I'd say we finally know what it's like to have the tables turned.