Quotes About Understanding

He'd always known that Samantha Dark was like her name. She wasn't meant for a normal life, that fake life of smiles and perfect days. There was more inside of her, a twisting, snaking dark, an understanding, even a need to explore the tainted side of life.

Her eyes searched his. "Don't hate me, don't—" His head shook. "Sweetheart…" The endearment slipped from him. "Do I look like I give a damn about what you've done?

humans, ah, humans I get right every time." And her

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

My feelings for John were very different from those I'd had for any other boy: more powerful, more exciting and totally unshakeable. And I sensed in John the same strong feelings. Perhaps each of us recognised and was drawn to a deep need in the other. But at the time I didn't analyse it. I simply felt certain that this was no passing fling. It was real love.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, "Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you. Other times it's because they don't want to hear you.

But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily

Dogs always forgive you when they know you're sorry. And so do star friends" -Lily

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years developing instead an intuition. By the time they are fifteen, as I was, they are masters of a kind of clairvoyance that tells them, He is depressed, He is frightened, He is pleased.

kind but distant, she now recognized him as

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love.

a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love.