Quotes About Understanding

We mean you no harm. We are scholars. We offer understanding. We offer shelter. We watch and we are always there.

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

He had no idea what Jilly Lovitz would appreciate or not. And why the hell did her name have so many fucking L's in it? She'd probably done it on purpose, just to annoy him.

How could you think I wouldn't know you? he chided softly. I know the way you move, the way you bite your lip when you're nervous, the sound of your laughter, your eyes. I know your hands and your skin, your scent, the way you try to pretend that something doesn't bother you when you're very bothered indeed.

She might have forgotten names and faces and people and events, but she hadn't forgotten emotions.

She needed to keep an open mind. She might have been hasty in dismissing the entire male gender.

He'd taken unfair advantage—he knew far more about women's bodies than she did, even though she lived in one.

It wasn't what you said, he told her.It was how I felt when you said it.

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne.

Abby had a little trick that she used any time Red acted like a cranky old codger. She reminded herself of the day she had fallen in love with him.

So maybe parenthood was meant to be educational, Robin thought—a lesson for the parents on totally other styles of being.

Why Americans always begin inch by inch with what they say?

It is the language, maybe?" he asked. "I know the vocabulary, but still I am not capable to work the language the way I want to. There is no special word for 'you' when it is you that I am speaking to. In English there is only one 'you,' and I have to say the same 'you' to you that I would say to a stranger; I cannot express my closeness.

I think if you knew them well enough, if you'd listened to them closely enough while they were still alive, you might be able to imagine what they would tell you even now. So the smart thing to do is, pay attention while they're living.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Sunday 11:05 AM Hi Kate I text you! Hi. U r home now? Spell things out, for heaven's sake. You're not some teenager. You are home now? No.

You know what you remind me of? The telegram Harpo Marx sent his brothers: No message. Harpo." That made him grin. Sarah said, "You would think it was funny." "Well? Isn't it?

She had no patience with foreign accents.

Her three children, she saw, had been staring at the horizon with the alert, tensed stillness of explorers at the ocean's edge, poised to begin their journeys. And Delia, shading her eyes in the distance, had been trying to understand why they were leaving. Where they were going without her. How to say goodbye.

This was when I was still very young, of course. Back then I thought I understood nearly everything.

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

You belong," he told her. "You belong just as much as I do, or, who, or Bitsy or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It's just like Christmas. We all think the others belong more.

Leroy remained silent, and no wonder; Maggie knew how chirpy and artificial she sounded. An old person, trying too hard. But if only Leroy could see that Maggie was still young underneath, just peering out from behind an older face mask!