Compassion Quote by Carol Oates

“She was right about one thing - I did need a caring, responsible adult around. If I could have cried on the shoulder of…

— Monica Holloway

“She was quietly lovely, unassumingly pretty, completely unaware that at some point between awkwardness and adulthood she had grown so appealing. And because she…

— Amy Harmon

“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Most of being young, she had always thought, was playing a game of elimination with an army of different selves until you settled on…

— Ted Thompson

“If she were human, I’d judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn’t sit in a negative column with her, though, because she…

— Jeaniene Frost

“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That…

— Steven A. McKay

“When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“She was the promise of youth, of being fearless...of being alive. She was everything I couldn't have and shouldn't want, but the more she…

— Ella Frank

“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.”

— Dinah Jefferies

“She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what…

— Leah Bobet

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a stillness spread…

— Nic Pizzolatto