Quotes About Understanding

We haven't been introduced' Finding her voice, she replied 'You know who I am, and I know who you are, and-' '-that won't serve'. His voice twined with hers, changing the scrip. And in the lapse after their words, she heard him waiting.

You can be on the same side and have different ideas.

It's alright, you know...To love him...Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to punish yourself. You've always felt the truth in him, then and now. Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

She hadn't expected to be sorry, and at first she wasn't. The act itself was neither disappointing nor magical; it was what it was: a new closeness. A shared secret.

The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound.

He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.

You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.

Me temo que se han enamorado —dijo él, preocupado—. No quieren abandonarte (...) Sé exactamente cómo se sienten.

I didn't even know my face could do this. It's like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.

Those words were like… they were like seeing a bloody knife. You didn't need to have witnessed the stabbing to understand what it meant.

He'd had to watch Madrigal die, and he hadn't understood the fervor - the ecstasy - of the crowd. He hadn't understood why the only one who mourned her was the enemy, driven to his knees and bloody from torture.

Peace is more than the absence of war.

I admit, I prefer an open mind to a closed one.

Everything else in Lazlo's mind took a step back to clear space for this new intelligence.

No nos han presentado. —Tú sabes quién soy yo y yo sé quién eres tú, y... —... Y eso no va a bastar.

Un uomo dovrebbe avere le zampe di gallina per aver scrutato troppo l'orizzonte, non soltanto per aver letto con poca luce».

There wasn't a word for what they were. Neither married nor promised—what time had there been for promises? Not yet lovers, but so much more than friends. So he faltered in his answer, leaving it unfinished, and it was, in its way, simply and perfectly true. He was Sarai's.

Beklemi?sin," dedi Akiva. "Ben... bekleyece?imi söylemi?tim." "Bekleyebilece?in kadar bekleyece?ini söylemi?tin." Söz vermedi?i için k?zm?? m?yd?? Karou ona, o s?rada, ?imdi fark?nda oldu?u ?eyi bilmdi?ini söylemek istiyordu -"bekleyebilece?i kadar beklemenin" yeterince uzun bir süre oldu?unu, sanki hayat? boyunca onu beklemi? gibi hissetti?ini...

Don't be such a human

Det var vetskapen, som legat begravd inuti henne , som monster i en grop. Men monstren var döda och kunde inte göra någon illa. Vetskapen, däremot, kunde slita henne i stycken. I alla fall hennes förstånd (s. 241).

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

Hay intimidad en el dolor. Cualquiera que haya consolado a alguien que sufre lo sabe

And when he reread the stories, still it was research.

You can't know. You can't know until you know