Jenny Downham Quotes

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m right here, Lev. I’ll find them all, I’m good at details, and I’ll put you back together. You’re safe here.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You get the most approval when you care the least about it.

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

She stared at me with concern a few moments longer and then relaxed a little. "Okay. But if you need anything—" "I know, I know. Call on the Love Phone.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.