Rebecca Makkai Quotes

There's very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

I don't want to say it's nice to see people cry, because of course it isn't, but there's something really emotional and lovely about seeing the impact you're having on someone's life.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

Meredith Vieira warms my heart.

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.

When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.

Lawsuits make you care. I think the PR makes you care. But personally, when I got out in 1983, do I think they cared about me? No.

I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.