The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the...

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.

Right. So what I don't understand is why everyone is mad at me, instead of realizing that I am the one who has been wronged here. Not a single person has come up to me and said, "I'm really sorry this...

"I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see."

What selfish soul would ask another to live this way.

If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the sores on his feet.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Those of us with Big Hearts are like Big Banks, we are too Big to fail!

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper...

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.

Don't judge what you don't know.

Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given, to be...

A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

No blame, no hate - why no communication?

Mikhail replayed the recent events in his mind for her. Raven inhaled, feeling as if someone had hit her square in the stomach. , he assured.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

"To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said....