compassionate Quotes

“I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.”

“Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it’s impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.”

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself…he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty”

Two older sisters are coping with high school- boys, pressures of studying and fitting in. Grandma is grumpy due to having her house invaded but underneath is compassionate, and shares the old Dreamtime stories.