Do you know what it is?’ [Toby] said thoughtfully. ‘It’s that they haven’t had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.’ It was certainly an interesting theory, … [but] surely one didn’t need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.

Do you know what it is?’ [Toby] said thoughtfully. ‘It’s that they haven’t had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.’ It was certainly an interesting theory, … [but] surely one didn’t need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.

– Michelle Cooper –

The FitzOsbornes in Exile

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