Quotes About Understanding

It's not so reasonable, Emmie, to believe you know everything about everyone's life. So how can you be disappointed at something that happened so long ago. You're angry because you know you have no right to be angry.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. He would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence—his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.

Perhaps, what I seek now is a friend like I have never had before. Someone to share a smoke and my thoughts with. Someone who will see life with the same eyes as I do; experience the same lift of spirit when mine soars. Someone whose destiny is woven with mine even though we are bound by neither blood nor any other tie.

What is it about marriage that makes it possible for a man and a woman to mesh their lives, dreams and even their thoughts in such a complete fashion?

How can adults expect forgiveness of children?It is an adult emotion. It is not a child's natural instinct to make compromises on behalf of a parent.

Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.

I brought pictures to the inn, to show you who I'd been, but I saw at once my mistake, the hurt in your eyes, and you said, It hurts that I wasn't with you.

to talk at length about her mother and father, whom she has not seen since their deaths in the late 1800s. The greatest insight to emerge from those sessions was that Etna

You know, Honora says, you read a word like massacre and you think, I know what that means. It means the slaughter of innocent people. And then you go on. You read another fact. You read the word trial. Or conviction. But then....when it happens to you, when you live the word, you realize that the word itself means nothing. It tells you nothing at all. It doesn't begin to convey the horror, does it?

Does it ever happen that a nice girl is a Lesbian? she asked him shyly.

I didn't think they liked women in a place like this." Jack guided her to a barstool. "Oh, they're friendly enough. They know you wouldn't be here if you weren't gay. They figure, you leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

You should find him because he loves you.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?