Quote by Philip Pullman

“You were just a caretaker. They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.”

— George Saunders

“I had filled my heart and hands with everyone else’s burdens, had accepted their worries as if they had been my own, assuming they…

— Uzma Jalaluddin

“They didn’t have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.”

— George Saunders

“Because you believed in me, I figured I was honor-bound to believe in myself.”

— Susan Carol McCarthy

“And no person, I was convinced, ever loved as deeply as an animal did for the person who cared for them.”

— Jessica Gadziala

“It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.”

— Alex London

“I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe…

— Carolee Dean

“I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt…

— Mohsin Hamid

“As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.”

— Carole Maso

“I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps,…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was. Like a perfect state of balance.”

— Tim Relf