Quotes About Misunderstanding

Don't mind Mallory. She's a sweetheart, once you get past the fact that she's a horrible person.

Blowfish, did you say? Ah, no. Blofis, actually. Oh, I see, Poseidon said. A shame. I quite like blowfish.

So, Frank said. Your name isn't Sammy? Leo scowled. What kind of question is that? Nothing, Frank said quickly. I just— Nothing.

You can't read ancient Greek?" I asked. "And you can't tell a strawberry from a yam," she retorted.

I stood up straight and announced in my deepest quest-accepting voice: I will use the mead of Kevin! Alex joined Samirah in the bury-your-face-in-your-hands club. Aegir narrowed his eyes. You mean the Mead of Kvasir? Yes. I said. That!

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say tell the truth, and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point? - Sadie Carter (Red Pyramid)

We watched Alex walking away. What just happened? I asked him. There are no words for it in sign language, he said.

We appreciate your hospitality, especially since we almost killed you—" "You almost got killed," Annabeth corrected. "Whatever, Chase." Oooooohhhhh! the crowd said as one. Then everybody started laughing and pushing each other around. Even Nico had to smile.

Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo." "No, stupid," Leo said. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

You mean zodiac signs? I'm a Leo. -No stupid, I'm a Leo, you're a Percy.

Despite the gifts, Calypso obviously didn't want to see him. One time he poked his head inside the cave and she freaked out, yelling and throwing pots at his head. Yeah, she was definitely on Team Leo.

I need to talk to you." "People always say that," Hartley said grimly, "but usually what they need is not to talk.

Freda had overheard Cissy telling Gladys that Freda was "a show-off brat." She had been wounded by her sister's judgement on her character. I am not a brat, merely unusually confident, she thought

She made 'pig' sound like a much worse word than it was. Pigs were quite nice.

He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins or read a particularly good story to her, but instead he beamed at Ursula and said, So, I hear you tried to kill your maid? (Oh, that's why I'm here, Ursula thought.)

Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong—why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.

He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation.

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers...

Brenda's pouting voice broke in, "Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.

It had never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it.

Canyons of incomprehension yawn between me and most other human beings, and I keep acting as if it's possible for me to reach across and join them on their side, to span the gap between who they believe me to be and who I really am.

My older brother never came to visit me. He did write me letters, though: distant and condescending ones, because those were the shallow pools in which his small mind swam.