Quotes About Understanding

Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

Anger's not bad, he said. It's human...

For a second none of us said anything, 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.

I knew whatever I said right then she wouldn't hear; with that kind of pain, a deafness comes.

And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.

I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is...it could be anything.

I think she loves him, Lia 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.

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

Roo had seen something in it, and recognized a part of me that matched. How could someone know you better than yourself? Especially if they really didn't know you, not at all.

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, Can you grab me the spoon? as opposed to a spoon, which at least connoted there was more than one.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel] 'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.' 'Since when?

Aceptar todo lo bueno y lo malo de alguien. Es algo muy bueno a lo cual aspirar. La parte difícil es en verdad hacerlo.

That's my point. That's why we can't forget. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me. She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

Hay un momento en la vida en el que el mundo se calla y lo único que queda es tu propio corazón. Así que más vale que aprendas cómo suena. Si no, nunca entenderás lo que está diciendo.

When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.

It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them. I wanted my sorry to sound genuine, because it was. That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted to say.

Nicely put," I said. "And all in less than two minutes." "Conciseness is underrated," she said easily.

Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we might have not even known was there.

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point - Sydney Stanford

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you?