Quotes About Understanding

What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.

Marriage is a series of compromises, and at its best, the compromises create a life, a partnership.

When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones

I think," Parker said carefully, "love is never wrong. Whether it's for the moment, or it's forever." "We all know Emma's always wanted forever," Mac pointed out. "But you can't have forever unless you take the moment.

He meant what he'd said about taking her home. His home. When she didn't argue the point, he figured she was more shaken than she'd admitted.

You'd understand, better than anyone, what it's like to lose a father when you need one so badly.

Strangers are treated as friends, and friends never as strangers.

Compassion - she was allowed to feel compassion, but not anger.

Now it would be foolish to deny that she wanted to understand him.

I loved her. How come I didn't know it until now?

moods." "I can do that." "I'll let you go. Maybe if you see the lady—Naomi . . . If you see her, you could tell her I'm sorry about the trouble." "I'll do that. You take it easy." "It's the best way to take it." Chip smiled a little, then climbed into his truck. Since it was close, and he was running a bit late now, Xander got into his own truck and drove

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

Your gaydar can't leap over buildings in a single bound like Superman. He's wearing a thong. Enough said. It's for ease of movement. Thong, Lila repeated.

She hadn't known that

Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He

He was good with women, he reminded himself. Probably because he just liked them—the way they looked, sounded, smelled—the strange way their minds worked. Toddler to great-granny, he enjoyed the female for who and what she was. He'd

turned it over. "Your

he doesn't believe or understand that power—like love—is infinite, that it only grows when shared, he covets.

him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.

But there's something else you and I understand, or should. And that is that love is precious, and too often stolen away. You've got a chance to grab hold of it again. And I say lucky you.

know, I know," she continued, setting him down, picking up the half glass of wine.

She's going to have to be more than smart. She'll have to be brilliant. She is. That's what makes her a pain in the ass. Stuck on her, are you? David waved the comment away. Sorry. Too personal. I was wondering if you were asking as a corporate suit, an associate or as the guy who's dating her mother. I was aiming toward friend.

When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then