Quote by Jane Austen

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Some people you can't comfort. You can only go along with their pretending and pretend yourself.”

— Shirley Ann Grau

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

“Be kind with what is unkind inside of you. This will heal you, your loved ones and the world.”

— Mary O'Malley

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“Out of every one of those who have nothing to say, the nicest are those who keep it for themselves.”

— Coluche

“It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If…

— Paul Neilan

“In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people.”

— Jennifer Probst

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren't her folk, but...they were, and maybe that meant that…

— Laini Taylor

“...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...”

— Sara Foster