Quotes About Understanding

My eyes don't quite glaze over when he starts talking about eleven-dimensional reality.

Oxford was always one to speak in riddles, enjoying teasing others with what he knew and what they didn't, and Kit had no stomach for it now.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Sometimes you know before you know.

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions And then it stops and undertakes to answer In the same tone of voice.

How had I come to be herelike them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

One shouldn't get too involved with people who can't possibly understand one

I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength from the dark, while hope thrives in the light.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.

You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.

It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.

For God's sake, is there no plain man?

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But here I do see how everyone feels." "I wonder if I like that," said Eddie. "I suspect how people feel, and that seems to me bad enough—I wonder if the truth would be worse or better. The truth, of course I mean, about other people. I know only too well how I feel.

In you there may persist some spark of what's everywhere else gone out: who knows why else I've loved you? Through love you've lit me – don't quarrel now with which way the fire blows.

To love makes one less clever.

Lord John, do stop gaping. A woman can possess a mind. If men gave more countenance to what ladies thought, the world would be a much more prosperous place.

Friends are the balm that soothes the heart. – Nanny Tasha (former nanny to Felicity and Tally Langley)

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.