Quotes About Understanding

He gives me a smile, a strange light in his eyes. 'If we were capable of putting mistrust aside, we might be a formidable pair.

Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude's waist. He understands everything and nothing he sees on the screen- just as he understands everything and nothing about being here with her family. He feels like a feral cat that might bite out of habit.

I think of all the good things that come from someone knowing you well enough to understand your hopes and fears.

If anyone can get me through tonight, it's him. He's good at putting those around him at ease, even when they ought to know better. Unfortunately, what I am good at is getting under people's skin. But at least I am also good at lying.

But standing in front of Midnight, knowing what actually happened, Tana could see that Midnight wasn't just telling a story to other people, she was telling a story to herself.

If it's hard for you to bear what you did, give me the weight.

And while I didn't think he was my friend, it didn't mean I couldn't be his.

I wonder what it would be like, to never have to be alone.

Hazel began to list what she knew. She liked lists. They were comfortingly straightforward, even when they were full of crazy stuff.

Enjoy your conversation." Maybe they will. They both hate me. That gives them something in common.

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us

You think I don't deserve him,' I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. 'Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other.

Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this, maybe no one has.

It hadn't made sense. He wouldn't accept it. He wouldn't go home.

Love doesn't grow well, fed on pain.

I knew little else, but I always knew you

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

And you." "I knew little else, but I always knew you.

I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

Faerie runs on debt, on promises and obligations. Having grown up here, I understand what she's offering—a gift, a boon, instead of an apology.

Jusqu'à ce que chacun de nous renonce à l'autre

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.

I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.