Quotes About Understanding

Love well, if not wisely.

Just because he's a spider doesn't mean he deserves any less concern!

No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually–" "Shut up.

They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.

Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffsNotes.

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding.

I'm more worried about you, she said. You and trouble... yeah. She heard the smile in his voice. We're like that.

Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

We can be lonely together

He stepped forward and took both her hands in his cool ones. For a moment, she thought he intended to kiss her, and for a panicked moment she wasn't sure if she ought to stop him, wanted to stop him…but then he just touched his forehead to hers and held it there.

Tota est scientia ," he said. "Knowledge is all. It either is, or it isn't; you can't say some knowledge is evil because it's inconvenient for you. And anyone who claims differently has no understanding at all of what the Great Library represents.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

I've failed you, he said. You just stopped the boy. That's not what I meant. I know what you meant, Oliver. You count too many things as failures when they are merely setbacks. She beckoned him up, and he stood, still intimately close to her. She didn't seem bothered. I feel safer with my old enemy beside me.

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

Did you talk to him about it? Oh, sure. Nothing happened, yadda yadda. The usual. But my maydar went off like crazy. Maydar? As in, he may be thinking about super hot sex with her. Like radar, only not as sure.

You have to schedule your epiphanies. And be patient.

Maybe only the truly damaged can accept each other in the way we do.

You're the crazy whisperer!

Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia.

Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. You see? They're as bad as we are. Worse, Santi sighed.