Compassion Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Isabel herself could hardly have put into words the new feeling – excitement, perhaps – she felt every time she saw this man. There…

— M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

“Isabel!' The second time James called her name, realization came crashing down around her. She became acutely aware of their location, their situation, their…

— Sarah MacLean

“She kept sneaking looks at him. He had strong, chiseled features, his jaw softened by a day or two's growth of beard. And those…

— Susan Wiggs

“Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to…

— Jim Harrison

“You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever be a time when she…

— Melinda Metz

“I don't know if I believed what I was saying, but I wanted to comfort Marta. It didn't matter if it wasn't true anyway…

— Nicole Grotepas

“Most of all, she went out of her way to provide them with the kinds of experiences that would expand their understanding of what…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.…

— Anne Perry

“She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett