Quotes About Understanding

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn't know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

I think she loves him, Lissa said. And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't, I replied