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“Pity and compassion are the easiest to understand. Compassion involves empathy. You see the stricken person as an equal. Pity doesn’t. If you pity someone you feel superior.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“And in Beauvoir’s experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“You truly are my friend, aren’t you?” she said. She hadn’t quite believed it, half expecting a ruse, but she didn’t think there was one. “You should know the answer by now,” he replied, but not unkindly. “It’s very difficult, in this place, to discern what’s real from what’s false.” “I know.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Too bitchy. Male egos were so tender, just like their balls.”
― Liane Moriarty, Three Wishes