Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us," Vivi said, "than to be mad at the people who deserve it.

If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.

Don't take it personally," Call said. "Lots of people find me really annoying. It's not just you.

So long as you're begging, he doesn't mind a bit.

sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Jude, you cant really think I dont know its you. I knew it was you from the moment you stepped into the brugh. Page 69

Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self.

Happiness isn't something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it's medicine. I don't need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don't need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.

She'd known he'd understand. Brothers and sisters had their own language, their own shorthand. She was glad to be able to share the weird, ridiculous impossibleness of it with the only person who knew all the same stories, with the person who'd made those stories in the first place. (pg. 117)

Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

love doesn't grow well, fed on pain.

She didnt have to command me, Jude. She didnt have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you. Page 300

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

Knowledge and action are one and the same.

He asks me nothing more, only matches his steps to mine.

Believe what you can handle believing

She waited. Sometimes silence kept people talking. Sometimes if they talked enough, they wouldn't notice when you didn't.

Now that I've started touching her, I can't seem to stop. Like somehow the language of my hands will tell her all the things I don't know how to say out loud.

Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could.

You might beg to differ. So long as you're begging, he doesn't mind a bit.

You have carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you have carried it long before that.

You whom I could not save Listen to me." —CZESLAW MILOSZ, "Dedication

Or you could try not talking to her," Call said. "When I don't talk to Tamara, she comes and hits me, so that would be a way that Kimiya might come to you first. Plus, once she hits you, it breaks the ice." "Or my shoulder," said Alex. "I mean, if it doesn't work, then, like they say, 'If you love someone, set them free. Don't lock them up underground in a cavern.