Quotes About Understanding

Tiger Lily, you know Moon Eye isn't for me." "She is," Tiger Lily said. "She's like me. They're two different things. You're..." He swallowed. "You're everything to me. You know that. Don't pretend that you don't.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they'd thought it was or if in England it was different.

Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.

I knew them almost as well as she did, because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.

Actually, May have been thinking of something her mom had said. About how you didn't make friends, but let them happen.

Ohhh," Pumpkin moaned. May moaned in her heart too.

It was strange. She'd been around the girls at school her entire life. But within these few minutes she began to feel like she had known this one for a million years.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.

You'd be good at being angry," he said. "You'd get it right.

Tiger Lily, you know Moon Eye isn't for me." "She is," Tiger Lily said. "She's like me. They're two different things. You're …" He swallowed. "You're everything to me. You know that. Don't pretend that you don't." She

I'm not myself', she offered guiltily. ... He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

Carter placed her fingers over his hand and signed a single sign. "I love you too," she answered. "How did you know what I said?" He moved his fingers along her arm trying to convince himself she was truly with him. "I listened with my heart." Her gaze locked with his.

He couldn't just take her home, bed her, and wait for children to pop out. Somewhere in between, he'd have to talk to her.