“Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.”— Stephen L. Carter Related Quotes “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”— Marianne Moore “Dickens writes that an event, “began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.”— Charles Dickens “Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn’t have a heart, it couldn’t be broken.”— Nenia Campbell