Quotes About Understanding

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Random Girl after a hookup: "Do you love me" Tucker: "I don't understand the question.

Tell me why you don't sleep. I didn't say goodbye. I knew what was happening, but I didn't say goodbye. I didn't even try to.

The look on Deathbringer's face was so obvious — so real and sad — that Starflight had the weird experience of being able to see what his own expression must be every time he thought of Sunny.

Sundew tugged the scarf a little higher up Bumblebee's neck. "Our turn, little bug. Stay very still and do NOT distract me, understand?" "Ooobeegoo," Bumblebee said sternly. She patted Sundew's face. "Do NOBBY splamflamp." "I wasn't planning on being splamflamp," Sundew retorted, "whatever that is.

For most of her life, Cricket's best friends were books. Books accepted you the way you were and shared all their secrets with you. Books never told you to stop asking questions or accused you of being nosy and annoying. Books never said, "Cricket, you don't need to know that, mind your own business.

EW," Bumblebee declared, in perhaps her most accurate observation so far.

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

But friends didn't wipe other friends' memories.

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

It doesn't work to throw tribes together and just hope they'll get along, because they won't — they can't. Dragons don't work that way, no matter what tribe they're from.

She thought about that for a moment. He liked the way she stopped and thought carefully about the things he said. Most dragons already had their ideas settled in their heads; if they paused to think before responding, it was only about how to explain to you that you were wrong. But Cricket seemed to take in information and questions and hold them up against the things she thought she knew, to see if there was anything new she missed.

In books, everything had an explanation. She especially liked nonfiction: lots of facts and things had to make sense. If a question came up, eventually you got the answer. Every mystery was solved by the end. Facts fit together. When you wanted something explained, there it was, with no whispering or cold stares or slammed doors.

Yeah," Swordtail said fervently. "HiveWings don't care about anyone but themselves." Cricket flinched, and Blue frowned at Swordtail. "That's really unfair, Swordtail. You don't know what's going on in their hearts. The only HiveWing you know well is Cricket, and she cares a lot.

It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her, being extremely noisy and distracting

Well, I sort of do, now that we have Blue.

Snowfall?" Lynx said after a moment. "Are you — did I break you?" She reached out and tapped lightly on Snowfall's forehead.

That was like watching her brain work on the outside of her head," Fatespeaker said to Starflight.

That's a lot of thoughts," he said. "Weren't you paralyzingly shy at one point? What happened to that unobtrusive, quiet dragon?" "It turns out it's actually much easier to talk to you when I can't hear what you're thinking," Moon admitted,

Qibli suspected he could spend hours tracking the emotions on Peril's face and never get bored.)

There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is.

Blue and Swordtail would have to learn to live with invisible girlfriends.

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