Quotes About Understanding

Please, Peter. I know her well and so do you. Well, I did know her well. But I don't think people change at the core. They are who they are.

Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn't for me.

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discovery leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.

I could never be with someone who didn't understand how important my family is to me. When

When you lose someone and it hurts, that's when you know the love was real.

Here's something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don't always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.

I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.

Once I asked her why she didn't like nuts on her sundae, and she said she did like them, but I loved them. And she loved me.

Creo que ahora veo la diferencia, entre amar a alguien desde lejos y amar a alguien desde cerca. Cuando lo ves de cerca, ves quiénes son en realidad, pero también ellos ven quién eres tú realmente.

If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds matter-of-fact. Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense

Okay, okay. You know I didn't mean it like that. I just mean that you should give people a chance to know you." Josh points the remote control at me and says, "If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds so matter-of-fact. Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

Girl understand each other in a way boys never will.

I wished there was something I could say to take that look away, but sometimes there just weren't words.

There is a specific kind of fight you can only have with your sister.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

Just you wait. As soon as you and I are done, he's gonna pull some cheesy-ass move and, like, profess his love for you with a boom box. I'm telling you, I know how guys think.

Sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate.

It's starting to make sense to me. Why he'd go along with a scheme like this, why he'd spend his time with someone like me. It's not so he can move on from Gen. It's so he can't. I'm just his excuse. I'm holding Genevieve's place for her. When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.

Nunca digas que no cuando en realidad quieres decir que sí.

Girls understand each other in a way boys never will.

I read his texts over and over. They're spaced minutes apart, so I know he must be fretting over whether I'm mad or not. I don't want to be mad. I just want things to go back to how they were before.