Quotes About Understanding

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

He has never understood the human compulsion for conversation: people, when they speak, say useless things that seldom if ever improve their lives. Their words make them sad. Why can't people stop talking and embrace each other?

That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.

She puts her arm around me. 'You're just too young to understand.' As soon as she says this, I realise she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

Maybe the way back will somehow make sense of the coming.

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Why are you asking me? I'm seventeen and don't know anything about what to do when you're autistic and gay.

People can have nothing but good intentions and still sometimes make you want to kill them.

He smiled down into her eyes and she looked right at him and she knew him. When hadn't she known him? With a little sigh of acceptance, she moved into his arms, meeting his eager kiss with a mouth that was just as greedy as him

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn't 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but 'Is this character alive?'

It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is "useful to get that learned.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

Claire: One of the hallmarks of a mother-daughter relationship is what I call the Zero to Sixty Factor. We can get instantly irritated at each other and just as instantly move on… Men don't get this. Paul will say, "Girls, stop fussing," and we'll immediately turn and say in unison, "We're not arguing.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet

A description of autism must be anecdotal; without anecdotes there are words but not experience.

Clara Claiborne Park

Clara Claiborne Park

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

leaves out verbs and articles and pronouns and prepositions, in what those who know autism call "telegraphic speech.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.