Quotes About Understanding

Well, I reckon to really understand the world, you got to die at least once.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10–12

I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

There is no possibility of conversation with a loudspeaker.

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

And by the way, you clearly don't know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.

Gazzy called over to me I can't see anything! I can't see anything either, Iggy complained. I'm rolling my eyes, Ig. I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe. p. 155

I love you Max,Fang said...God, Max I love you so much. I know. I thought. I've always known

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. He needs a Band-Aid, I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.

Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know for sure everything he's thinking?

When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

Life is a test. It's all a test. Sometimes you have to get through it, and then later everything makes more sense.

If you've ever loved someone like I did, if they made you crazy and happy and exasperated and elated and if you wanted to hold them and shake them and sometimes kick them and if, after all that, they were like part of your family and part of your soul… Imagine seeing that feather. Imagine what that felt like. It made it real.

Most people come together through sexual attraction and then try to figure out if they're compatible. The sex distracts them, then they realize too late that their pieces don't fit together