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Quotes About Misunderstanding

It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia."Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked me the first time."Otto smirked, "Well I have no idea why.
~ Otto Ray and Amelia Raht
It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.
~ Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
I suppose you really don't need those wires they used tonight, huh?" she said."I'm a vampire, not a ghost." He seemed offended.
~ Teal Ceagh, Kiss Across Time
Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do you get the irony?Who is now talking about, who ain't serious?Oh, we gonna do that and that and that and that?… Yeah, yeah You just wanna trick me one more time….
~ Deyth Banger
Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.
~ James Riley, Twice Upon a Time
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
~ Christopher Guest
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
~ Eric Hoffer
No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.
~ Darynda Jones
Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together." "No," I said. "No?" "We're, uh, not in West Virginia.
~ Richelle Mead
And she hated him—perhaps the more so because there was no reason for her hatred. Quite the contrary. She was the one who had wronged him . . . His own dislike was a result of what she had done to him. And she knew now that the way she had justified her behavior all those years ago had been all wrong. There had been no justification.
~ Mary Balogh
One thing at least was beginning to clarify itself in Elizabeth's mind. Their separation had not been brought about by his lack of love or by cruelty. Somehow there had been a massive misunderstanding. For six years each of them had believed the other at fault. Each had carried the pain and the bitterness all that time.
~ Mary Balogh
They had told each other their stories, yet had failed to understand what had happened. And they had parted. It was all over. But why should that be? They had loved each other passionately six years before, had defied their families in order to marry, and had grieved for each other ever since. They loved and wanted each other now. Why should they be apart forever? Had they not suffered enough?
~ Mary Balogh
Have you noticed, Marius, she asked on one occasion, that the English tend to feel that if they talk loudly enough, the French will understand them? As if talking French were an affliction of the deaf?
~ Mary Balogh
You make a joke of everything . . . It is impossible to talk to you.
~ Mary Balogh
He doubtless thought I had you in the bushes ravishing you. Well, she said, you must admit that you had something not too far distant from that on your mind. A kiss? he said. Similar to ravishment? You malign me. I was about to kiss you, Diana, in the tradition of true romance.
~ Mary Balogh
He would not have raised an eyebrow and smiled behind his eyes at a lady whose bed he had climbed into by mistake one night. He would have done the gentlemanly thing and died of mortification.
~ Mary Balogh
It always was well nigh impossible to get any sense out of you, Jack, she said. Have you ever said anything to anyone that you really meant?
~ Mary Balogh
And you would probably be always telling me that I am angry with you when I am not angry at all but only afraid of losing you.
~ Mary Balogh
Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears.
~ Mary Connealy
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella) Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm)
~ Mary Doria Russell
She would not show her personality, and even if she did, nobody would see it; they would be too distracted by the thought of a mechanical cunt, endlessly absorbing discharge.
~ Mary Gaitskill
We denken alleen nog aan onze kennismaking.' 'Toen jij zo woest op me was en ik niet begreep waarom.' Hij keek haar lachend aan. 'Ik zal vast nog wel eens woest op je zijn, hertog Luciano,' zei Arianna.
~ Mary Hoffman
Zwanger!' zei Arianna. 'Hoe kan hij nou zwanger zijn?
~ Mary Hoffman