Quotes About Understanding

You can never know another person's mind; this is one thing I have learned.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I'm the one who isn't pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don't know what it is like to be in prison, you don't know what it's like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future. When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person.

Don't flip the script on semantics," Celestial said.

Much of life is time and circumstance, I see that now. Roy came into my life at the time when I needed a man like him. Would I have galloped into this love affair if I had never left Atlanta? I don't know. But how I feel love and understand love are two different things.

didn't want her to stand up for what was right, I wanted my mother to stand up for me.

Celestial, I dated this other girl, also born and

When I saw you, I was looking into your face, but I didn't really see you. I don't have the right words to explain.

You don't know what you need until somebody gives it to you exactly the way you need it gave.

The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural

There is no fair fight to be waged about the past.

I didn't tell Celestial about the voices in my head. I'm sure she had a choir of her own.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. —CLAUDIA RANKINE

My girlfriend at the time wasn't keen on meeting Celestial; even she could tell from the way I pronounced her name that my feelings were more than friendly.

you can never know another person's mind; this is one thing that I've learned.

This is not an excuse, just an explanation.

sometime that only thing that can cure a man is the inside of the woman, the right woman who does things the right way.

like that one time when Celestial happened upon a receipt for two pieces of lingerie, not just for the one I gave her for her birthday.

A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

Every relationship requires that you go through some shit.

I could see from the little turn-up at the corner of her eyes that she was so proud that she could have been her own mother,

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

The one thing I don't miss is how we fought so much. I can't believe we wasted so much time fussing over nothing. I think about every time I hurt you.

didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.