Quotes About Understanding

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only ay to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

Please don't be sorry. Please just cry for as long as you need to cry.

But here was his lovely dad who did not understand what Rory had

Kim scans it quickly

And there's her email address.

And she felt it then, like a needle in her heart, the love her mother always talked about. 'You won't understand how much I love you until you're a mother yourself.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

And they are a part of you. And with Viva it sometimes felt like we were continuations of the same person, that I began where she ended, and vice versa.

You never really know a person until after they're dead. That's when it all comes out. All the stuff they locked up in boxes. All the secrets, all the lies. That's when you really know the truth.

A WEAK MAN CAN'T LOVE A STRONG WOMAN. HE WON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER.

the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

You don't annoy me." Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. "I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?" "Yes. I make your feet tingle." A smile came to his lips. "Among other things.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the exchange." -Liberty Jones

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.