Quotes About Understanding

Still he had not cracked a smile, but his eyes were different now, they were here.

You remember everything people say to you?' I locked into his eyes. 'Everything /some/ people say to me.

The empty look on Beans's face indicated that the answer had reached his ears, but no farther.

Don't hate him either. You shouldn't hate anybody ... If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people ... A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry. ... You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart ... and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

Easier to rearrange the stars than a father's mind.

And whenever she saw Palmer with them at school, she acted as if she did not know him. Palmer sensed that she was doing this for his sake.

She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.

I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

It's only possible to provide help when it's asked for. The rest of the time, all you can give is love.

listen without telling you to appreciate the attention? Be happy. The guy likes you. "You don't want to burn it all up

Heather Cawl and I hadn't acknowledged

Claude's father was one of those guys who thought if you didn't laugh, it was because you hadn't heard the joke clearly enough.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

Don't ever say that after sex, do you understand? If you feel the urge to say it, go see the girl first thing in the morning, with her night breath and no makeup...watch her on the toilet...listen to her with her friends...go meet her hairy mother and her shrill friends...and if you still feel the need to say such a stupid thing, then God help you.

You don't really want my side of the story. You don't want to understand me, know me, to crawl inside of my head. You don't want to feel the things I've felt. You just want to know that one thing: why. Fine. Here's why: Her. I did it all for her.

Why can't we talk about what we think instead of just all the stupid shit we've done?

When he had asked [her]if the man she loved felt the same way, she had answered quickly that yes, the man loved himself as well.

It's another mystery of parenting: how you can love your kids without always liking them.

Divination of true nature. Of motivation. Of desirous hearts. I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once: We want what we want.

But anyone who has been in love knows that love is just the beginning. You learn more every day, every year, every decade, and not just about the object of your affection, but about yourself, and about the nature of love itself, and eventually, about the nature of loss.

Being with you let me feel, feel everything , and I needed that. I remembered better with you, I healed better with you, and you made … you made everything real.

How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does. And when Julie looked at Matt, she unquestionably saw love.

Shut up he says teasingly. I know what you're thinking, and that's not why you're here with us We walk for a minute. Why am I? Sabin shrugs. Does there really have to be an answer to that? Sometimes it's just right. You fit. Jesus, kid, can't you feel it? Don't question everything. I smile. I do feel it. Belonging.

Don't overanalyze what you see. I have a felling that you're over-thinking things. Give it some time, and the pieces of this puzzle might come together.