Quotes About Misunderstanding

Terrible," said Stink. "I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, just-like-that-kids'-book yuck days." "What's wrong?" asked Mom, coming into the room. "Stink hit his friend Webster

How do you know that, Philo, dear? But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are. By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.

You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?

It would be about one of life's most reliable disappointments, which is that your audience, no matter how small, is always bigger than those who actually understand what you're saying.

neurodevelopmental dysfunction is misread as a behavior problem

Geez," I groan. I sure know how to make enemies—without even trying. People suck.

In a cab home from a jazz club, he said, "You act like I just want to sleep with you." He said, "I want to everything with you.

As ever, Sue was on the phone, and I could tell by her posture - she was half laying on the desk - that she was crying. I knew this was no distress but joy: She always cried when her boyfriend admitted that he was a complete idiot.

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

Don't get me wrong. I know he loved me. But I don't think he knew how to be a father.

This was what she hated most about the on-line world, the shadows as much as the bright lights of the legal nets: too many men assumed that the nets were exclusively their province, and were startled and angry to find out that it wasn't...rather than ever admit fear, they walked with raised hackles, looking for a fight.

The codependents in my life didn't understand me, and the misunderstanding was mutual. I didn't understand me, and I didn't understand them.

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

Your Grandfather, said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, was Crazy.

To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened and loved – yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies.

This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, Come straight home after school. Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

Masses of the people think that feminism is always the only about women seeking to be equal to men. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving. It's as simple as that. Often we confuse perfect passion with perfect love.

He tells her that it is not that he does not want her to be a girlfriend but that he can see that she is not interested. She tells him that she cannot be interested when it seems that she is only a way for him to announce his own rebellion.

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy

Not all messages reach their intended audience. Sometimes the messenger is killed, sometimes the audience.

A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn't mean it as a compliment.

my father told me he had hurt his knee, though that didn't explain why he was icing his balls

More than once she'd felt as though they were talking at each other rather than to each other.