Quotes About Understanding

I want to love. I want to love indiscriminately - people, places, and things. But not just those. I want to love verbs. Adjectives. I want to love beyond category. Because, in my heart, I know that's what I was born to do. And life? Life is just the time I have to figure out how to do it well.

Your Temporary Santa, He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

we are quiet tonight, but in the same silence

I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

There is no way to describe how I feel. This is something I've never known. She has told me something I've never known.

And I look at her and she looks at me and it's like everything just opens up.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks. And the reply comes instantly: For anything.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

Brothers are not like sisters.

Infinity is against us, I told him. There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.

When everybody knows you, it is easy to think that nobody will ever really know you.

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan)

these things let us know how we fit with each other, even if we aren't sure how we fit with everybody else

The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know. Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine.

We see each other, and it is enough. For today.

I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.

I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it.

After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this not to be the case. There's always something new to learn about the person you love.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person. Know, and love.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. One night I was lying in the dark, looking at her looking at me, and it just was there, undeniable.

The had compatible silences.