Quotes About Understanding

For the first time ever, she saw her mother as just a girl: a girl like her who made mistakes, who screwed things up, who was just making it all up as she went along.

You're different from other agency people," one client told her at the end of their first meeting, as he shook her hand to seal the deal. "You actually listen more than you talk.

What was the actual benefit of accuracy when it came to memories?

But love after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best – that sort of a love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out.

He couldn't understand Rachel's need to wonder what could have been, rather than just accepting that it never would be.

How do you make a man do something without nagging?" "That," said Madeline, "is the billion-dollar question.

But Nick was Nick. He knew what she meant when she said, "Oh my dosh." They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same place; they could begin a million conversations with "Do you remember when . . .";

None of this seems real," said Alice. "I'm like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made sense. You didn't like it either. We liked things to make sense.

What sort of daughter refuses to go to her mother's house? What sort of daughter speaks with such violence to her mother about buying a new recipe book? She

I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant changes in his life, but of course, he doesn't know that he's only a minor character in my life. He's the star of his own life, and I'm the minor character. and fair enough too.

Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room?

It wasn't always necessary to tell your husband the whole story.

Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing?

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

Porque en tus hijos hay algo que saca al niño que hay en ti. Nada ni nadie puede sacarte de quicio como tu hijo.

Now for the first time she understood that her mother wasn't resisting love so much as bearing it. Now she knew that you could love so much it literally hurt: an actual pain in the center of her chest.

It was somehow easier to just baldly admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently and empathetically and filter everything through her own emotions.

Madeleine thought, "thank you darling, because that always works, doesn't it, telling a woman to calm down

She needed to find someone who would let her say all sorts of horrible, bitchy things and not judge her for it or pass them on.

Joy preferred not to embarrass Steffi by offering her dog food as Steffi didn't appear to know she was a dog. She chatted at length with Joy each morning after breakfast, making strange, elongated whining sounds that Joy knew were her sadly unintelligible attempts at English. The one time they'd taken her to the local dog park, Steffi had been appalled and sat at their feet with an expression of frozen hauteur on her face, as if she were a society lady at McDonald's.

I don't think it works like that," said Joy. "It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.

She still had no solution, no way out, but for just this moment she was sitting opposite someone who understood.