Adam

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
― Dennis Lehane

“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game

“Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he’s the man that fights the bull.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One man's journey through the world of fighting