Quotes About Understanding

And Honey, I just want you to know, even though I didn't see it coming, it makes absolutely no difference to your father or to me that you are a thespian.

shouldn't be blaming

here to talk to Greg

I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever.

Don't you want to forget it, if it's past? I don't know. I don't know just how you mean that. I mean, are you sorry? No. Would I do the same thing again? Yes. Do you mean with somebody else, or with her? With her, Therese said.

the rapport between two men or two women can be absolute and perfect, as it can never be between man and woman, and perhaps some people want just this, as others want that more shifting and uncertain thing that happens between men and women.

What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them.

She wanted two weeks of working among people she didn't know, doing the kind of work a million other people did. She wanted to step into someone else's shoes. She

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.

Carol only smiled at her, a little

If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.

Perhaps it was a statement after all: I don't want to die without knowing you. Do you feel the same way, Carol? She could have said the last question, but she could not have said all that went before it.

You say you love me however I am and when I curse. I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become.

Therese Belivet: I never asked for anything! Maybe that's the problem!

Life is a long failure of understanding . . . a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad, ¿no crees?

I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become.

Therein lay the flaw, and the flaw of life itself. Life is a long failure of understanding, Mrs Palmer thought, a long mistaken shutting of the heart.

I'm trying to move ahead, Cade, she whispered to the window. I didn't want to marry again. I didn't want another man taking away my choices. But it's happening all over again, and I don't like it. Can you understand that, Cade? Can you understand how I feel? His hands captured her shoulders and pulled her around. His face loomed over hers as he spoke. Give us time, Lily. We can make it work. Living without anyone else is an awful lonely business. He

Cade, this is foolish. I look like a beached whale. Allow me some decency. Instead, Cade flung the covers to the floor and straddled her legs, leaning over to rest his ear against her stomach. I think he speaks Apache, but I can't understand a word he says. Lily laughed softly and tried to push him away.

We need a national Forgive the Ignorant Day

Lily closed her eyes in relief, then opened them again. Seeing through her eyes, Cade was aware of the shabbiness of the chambray shirt he'd strained at the seams, the calluses of his big hands, and the foreignness of his high-cheekboned brown face, but she seemed to see beyond these things. He hoped she saw beyond them. I

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

and the rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart hunger will hold people in the palm of his or her hand