Quotes About Understanding

I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should've known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

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

And the way he looks at me-it's like he's finally realized how real I am, how here I am. What I've just said isn't worth that. Which means I must be worth that.

I'm still me, and eventually he will see that.

I felt love. Right there, in the kitchen. And I felt relief.

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

It allows me to understand the strength it takes not just for A to be human, but for all of us to be human, if we want to be important not just to friends, but to strangers.

You are not as messed up as I am.

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I reach out my hand to say I'm sorry. He takes it, but gives nothing else away.

She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, you're disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem." Excerpt From: David Levithan. "The Lover's Dictionary." iBooks.

I can see how siblings could be helpful in life—someone to share family secrets with, someone of your own generation who knows if your memories are right or not, someone who sees you at eight and eighteen and forty-eight all at once, and doesn't mind.

Insight, n.: How telling that there isn't anything called "outsight," as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

Bycie w odpowiednim miejscu w odpowiednim czasie i wsparcie t? obecno?ci? drugiego cz?owieka to najlepsze, co mo?emy robi? dla siebie nawzajem.

No necesitamos hablar para ser conscientes de la presencia del otro.

They had no right to deny us. But they had every right to feel things.

Él dice que los regalos no son importantes, pero yo pienso que sí lo son; no por cuánto cuesten, sino por la oportunidad que nos dan de decir te entiendo.

Esto sucedió antes de que nos conociéramos, antes de que encontrase a alguien que lo acogiera y le dijera que no había nada malo en él.

With some people, the minute you start taking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should've known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. But the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind.

O propósito do amor não é ser a solução, a resposta ou a cura para a outra pessoa. O propósito do amor é ajudar o outro a encontrar o que eles precisam, da maneira que você puder.