Quotes About Understanding

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk

He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

He asked about Dad and about Gran- as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.

am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.

I guess that is why they've been here. I needed them.

Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

No one here is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.

Don't cause distress, she said. Don't remind people of a loss. "Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.

He is shivering slightly and he kisses my neck with cold lips.We stay like that,enfolded in each other's arms,for a minute or two, and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself, and I know any anger we felt has disappeared. Gat kisses me on the lips,and touches my cheek. I love him. I have always loved him.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are.

Be a little kinder than you have to, Cady, and things will be all right.

She wanted to see all his scars, see all of him, and she felt suddenly, intensely certain that he was a safe person to show her own scars to.

No estoy hablando del destino. Yo no creo en el destino, ni en las almas gemelas, ni en lo sobrenatural. Lo que quiero decir es que nos comprendíamos el uno al otro. Totalmente.

I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way. - Cady

Well me the real reason. I mean, haven't we been friends long enough that I deserve the truth?

I do not love my father's way of thinking, but much of it has become mine.

Jule had loved Immie Sokoloff as well as she knew how to love anyone. She really had.

I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural or any of that stuff. I just mean we understood each other. All the way

Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.

I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.