Quotes About Understanding

He took her in his arms right away. I'm so sorry, he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.

The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn't see it.

I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

I'm afraid of not having enough time, she clarified. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

I wanted to come more than halfway.

Él no escucharía sus palabras. Dudaba también de que fuera a escuchar su silencio.

Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. 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.

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.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't.

Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

I'm afraid of the quick judgements and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies

You have been my friend,"                  replied Charlotte. "That in itself                  is a tremendous thing."        Ã¢â'¬â€E. B. White

loving a person was all you could do.

It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. Experience.

Remember: Pants=Love. Love your pals. Love yourself.

A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

When it came to your own family, it was hard to remember how weird they were.

Mattie felt sympathy and judgement growing together. They didn't cancel each other out.

The key to understanding liberals is that "It is the need not of liberty, but of servitude that is always predominant in the soul of crowds."16

If the series of pilgrimages toward understanding our actual circumstances in the universe, the origin of life, and the laws of nature are not spiritual quests, then I don't know what could be. I