Quotes About Understanding

Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. Is hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you

Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. It hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

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

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

Suddenly, I had a flash of him in the car that day, drawing in his breath. Plus the staring at lunch in the green, and the weird way he'd acted at the Vista 10. Oh, God, I thought, finally getting it. Nate was right. He liked me. This was just what I needed.

Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually. The important thing is that you keep trying to talk to each other, even if it's difficult at first. It gets easier. I promise.

In a marriage, it's not just whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty. It's whether you see it those two ways, or any of the other endless fractions that are possible.

Truth: I was having trouble keeping up. Not just with this conversation, but the people actually having it. I'd spent so much time alone lately that I'd forgotten what it was like to be relaxed in another person's company. I liked it.

What can I do to make you happy?

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's

I loved him so much," I said. "No one can even understand what losing him was like." "That's the thing, though." He exhaled, looking down. "I wasn't trying to get what it was about him. I just felt that finally, maybe, i was starting to understand you.

It was easier to just be mad at my mom; sympathy and empathy are complicated things.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

No staring into your puppy's eyes, because dogs view prolonged glares as confrontational, not instructional. Instead, keep looking over their head.

Running and shouting "No" to a puppy may make them stop at the moment, but you'd stop too if someone shouted at you. Your puppy doesn't understand; you'll only succeed in making them afraid of people.

Watch your words. If the phrases you use for baby and dog are too similar, your pup may get hyped up at the wrong time or be utterly confused. (Why are you looking at the newbie instead of me!) Change phrases like "What a good girl!" to "What a great puppy!

As I stress throughout this book — and even more so at this particular stage in your puppy's life — keep your cool. Sure, your puppy may act like a stranger at times, but they still identify with you and adore you most of all.

If one of your human friends or relations is eager for a kiss, ask them to wait until your puppy is on all four paws before coming down to their level.

Remain calm. Don't let your puppy see that you're angry or frustrated.

Avoid prolonged or assertively staring at you puppy when you address them. Either of these actions may be interpreted as confrontational play, making rowdy problems worse, not better. If the puppy cannot be redirected to a toy, stop touching them. To an excited young puppy, touch excites interactive play.

Hands learn. More than minds do.