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1 " He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be. "
― Tanya Huff , Blood Trail (Vicki Nelson #2)
2 " There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation. "
― Niall Ferguson , Civilization: The West and the Rest
3 " I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons. "
― Nenia Campbell , Tantalized
