Quotes About Understanding

And, sometimes, when I'm being the best version of myself, I will remember that bullies are created--that bullies seek to torture because they've been tortured.

De repente comprendí que, si hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de un libro, entonces también hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de una vida.

Whites and Indians laughed at most of the same jokes, but they laughed for different reasons.

I didn't know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch.

He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could.

I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it.

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know?

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

We spend our lives with the person who has the same scars in the same places.

But whenever I started in on my crazy theories, Norma would put her finger to my lips really gently. Junior, she would say with gentleness and patience. Shut the fuck up. Norma always was a genius with words.

Because someone needs to help you die the right way," she said. "And we both know that dying ain't something you ever done before.

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.

I declared a truce with her, at least within myself. Or maybe it's only a partial truce because a half-truce is really just a surrender, right?

Don't know," we all said, but when we look in the mirror, see the history of our tribe in our eyes, taste failure in the tap water, and shake with old tears, we understand completely. Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough.

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views should be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees...the birth parents'...and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.

Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995).

You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]

Grim sighed heavily. I swear I'm getting a migraine. My mom suffers from those a lot, too. Being around you, I imagine she does.

Please, Achimou? (Tory) You are the only being who's ever called me that. (Acheron) Well, I'd call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory)