Quotes About Understanding

The thing about nagging is that it's not nagging if you ask a person once. It only becomes nagging when you're asking for the fortieth time.

Ellie, your grandmother must have been incredible. I wish I could've met her." She sighed. "She totally rocked. I miss her so much sometimes." She swallowed. "Seems unfair sometimes. Jason… My gramma… Two people I loved so much are already gone." Noah did an uncharacteristic thing. He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand, giving it a squeeze. Because he understood that. *

What movie did you decide on?" "What Women Want. Mel Gibson." "I better pay attention to that one," he laughed. "I seem to be deficient in that department." When they'd finished, he picked up their trays. "You can start it or wait for me to do dishes, your choice." "I'll wait," she said. And once the water was running in the little kitchen, she murmured, "And you're not deficient in anything." *

Do you have any idea how much I love you?" he asked her. "That's the best part," she answered. "I do." *

It's important that we leave each other and the comfort of it, and circle away, even though it's hard sometimes, so that we can come back and swap information about what we've learnt even if what we do changes us and we risk not recognizing each other when we return.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them.

Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?

I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.

Sorry,' I apologized, realizing she was the sort of girl who got upset when someone used an unfamiliar word, rather than learning what it meant.

I reached for the switch on my desk lamp and flashed HELLO. The lights switched off in Cassidy's bedroom, and her flashlight flicked on. SORRY. "She's sorry," I told Cooper, because he didn't understand Morse code. He lifted his head as if to say But you already knew that, old sport. Her flashlight flickered again. FORGIVE ME. This time, I didn't hesitate. ALWAYS, I replied.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

as far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to "I'm sorry.

Come on, Cooper, we're going. Cassidy doesn't want to talk to us right now because she's mad I figured out why we broke up.

Just so long as you're cool with outercourse, I guess I don't mind." I grinned. "What the heck is outercourse?

Biblically, Faulkner. We know each other biblically.

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

I left Jill's party thinking that sometimes it isn't worth confirming what we already know about people we understand so well. Because what Charlotte had wanted that night wasn't me.

Era yo el que no había entendido el cambio de sentido y se obstinaba en seguir por la ruta prevista.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Leah had not realized until she sat down at the table with her book club friends that she'd been waiting all year for this moment. To reunite with women who understood and didn't judge her, and women whom she could call friends.

Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child forever," said Cicero.