19.3.06

empathy

"OK, OK", he says. "Bad idea. Shall i talk to him?"
"No."
"Why not?"
I don't say anything; i don't know why not. Except that i didn't want anything to leak out of this conversation into the real world. I just wanted my brother to come into this little weird bubble i'm in for an evening. I wanted empathy, not action.

-Nick Hornby, How to be good.

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