Quotes About Understanding

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Love is a skill you learn.

When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

Just because it's anal intercourse doesn't mean it's not love.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Pretty much nobody is getting their emotional needs met.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

you can make mean anything.

It's a look that says: Thank you for not sharing.

A year could pass be­tween her ask­ing a ques­tion and my an­swer.

The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa.

By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

Give me tolerance. Flash. Give me understanding. Flash.

Give me clarity. Give me reasons. Give me answers. Flash.

Give me courage. Flash. Give me tolerance. Flash. Give me wisdom. Flash.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.