Quotes About Understanding

Context is all; or is it ripeness? One or the other.

Yes, good, kind Crake. I will stop telling this story if you sing. Because it makes me forget what I am telling.

If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.

Good. You are all intelligent women. Through your former…" He did not want to say professions. "Through your former experiences, you are familiar with the lives of women. You know how they are likely to think, or let me rephrase that—how they are likely to react to stimuli, both positive and less positive.

Words," he said, looking in my direction finally but with his eyes strangely unfocussed, as though he was really looking at a point several inches beneath my skin, "are beginning to lose their meanings.

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Which of us is it worse for, her or me?

I'm developing a knack for this, I can sniff out hidden misery in others now with hardly any effort at all.

was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

What I think doesn't matter. Which is the only reason he can tell me things.

She said gently that she wished he would talk more about his feelings. He said that if she had his feelings, she wouldn't want to talk about them either. This intrigued her. She was now more in love with him and more curious than ever.

I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.

There was a time when we didn't hug, after she'd told me about being gay; but then she said I didn't turn her on, reassuring me

A lot of people call you a feminist painter. What indeed, I say. I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?

I just want to love everyone. I don't care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.

Strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.

didn't plan to spend this amount of time these past weeks," Lynne said. "But I have learned a lot. I know my sheep and they know me, but this was a different kind of knowing. Because of what we've been through, there's a greater trust between Piaget and me than with the other sheep.

No se conoce a un hombre hasta que se le ve perder.»

There is no respect for hidden music

seek for that one person who can love us as we all long to be loved.