Quotes About Understanding

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

I felt unreasonably hurt at this. A dozen scathing comments went unsaid by me. He had no idea of what I had given up for him. Then the moment of anger passed and I was grateful I had not spoken. I never wanted him to know what I had sacrificed for him.

Why?" A simple question unlocks best

A simple question unlocks best.

She loved to talk. All I need do was provide the silence.

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less." p. 501 Bee to Fitz

The past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

I was just thinking of all the years and times when I've sat across from you, and wondered if I'd ever truly seen you at all.

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.

I perceived then that my father had already known these things, but that by asking about them in front of us, he had given Spink the opportunity to share his family's straitened circumstances without making it seem that he sought our pity.

Some friendships go deeper than madness or common sense

There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth.

shall." I think I finally guessed then what

Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well." p. 543

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear," Burrich said stubbornly. And, more warmly: "It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats. Imagine taming a horse that way. Or a dog. Even the most knot-headed dog learns better from an open hand than a stick.

Some say 'a dog' or 'a horse' as if every one of them is like every other. I've heard a man call a mare he had owned for seven years 'it' as if he were speaking of a chair. I've never understood that. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

How can I know what I'll do, until I've done it? How can I say?

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.

Tivessem eles sido cães, teriam me farejado, afastado-se a seguir, mas os humanos não têm dessas cortesias inatas.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer