Quotes About Understanding

You're an onion and Karen's a Maraschino cherry and I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed.

Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.

I know when you need your space. That's why I got the beard.

Real love is quiet. A whisper between two people.

I am sick of missing out on your words. What if you said something important? What if you revealed something to me and I missed it?

He says he's sorry when he's wrong and he lets me spend two hours looking at couches I don't need? Joe, are you for real?" I beam. I am.

you get older, you realize that you don't really hate anyone, even your shitty parents, because everyone's just doing the best they can.

You did that, Love. You sent me away, Love.' 'And you left,' she says. 'Do you even care what it's been like for me?

Pretty bad, huh?" "No," I say. "Pretty human.

Who wants to spend their precious life hating?

See how you were talking to me before you even knew me?

It's good to know all sides if you're gonna love someone

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

I think the healing power of dogs has less to do with what they give us than what they bring out in us, with what their presence allows us to feel and experience.

Loving a dog deeply does have a cellular quality, as though the most central part of you—your whole nervous system—gets tied into the bond, into the life you create together. You do get reprogrammed: a person with a dog becomes a dog person, with all the change that implies.

And Grace—meeting Grace has been like discovering a long-lost sister, a kindred spirit who's been out in the world all this time forging a nearly identical path.

He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the command- ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world worked anymore.

Always remember," she had told him. "When you're grown up, I want you to take your girlfriend, or your wife, or boyfriend—whoever it is you love—and you make sure they know you so well they can read your mind. You don't even have to tell them what you need, because they already know it. If they don't—well, it isn't love.

The way to get free of pain is to dive down into it. To acknowledge it.

Why didn't people belong to the ones who tried to love them?

Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren't there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.

A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.

We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear.