Quotes About Understanding

If everyone can do it, it's science. If only a few can, then it's witchcraft, or superstition, or whatever you like to call it, she said. But it's real.

Three days before his scheduled departure, he rose in the morning with the conviction that he must speak with Fraser, somehow. Not in the stiff manner of an interview between paroled prisoner and officer of the Crown—simply a few words, as man to man. If he could have that, he could go back to London with an easy heart, knowing that sometime, somewhere, there was the possibility that they might be friends again, even if that time and place could not be here and now.

But mad passion wasn't a necessary prerequisite for tenderness or consideration, was it?

It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge

he realized, with the flicker of surprise that attends recognition of things already long known

I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing.

He was leaning on his desk, chin in his hands, staring at me. "There are shocks," I said precisely, smoothing back my damp curls and giving him an eyeball, "and then there are shocks. If you know what I mean." He looked surprised; then a flicker of understanding came into his expression.

To know something was one thing - to be told another entirely. But I knew that

Grey seized him by the shoulders, seeking to ease him back. "Henry, my dear. Do forgive me. I didn't mean—

The lines of stress in Grey's face eased a little. "I see," he said slowly. "So—you have not seen him since—my God, that's twenty years!" He stared at me, dumbfounded. "And four months? Why—how—" He shook his head, brushing away the questions.

I kept thinking—how should I tell ye everything, about Geneva, and Willie, and John—will ye know about John?

He told me. About everything.

John—well." He lifted his shoulders and let them drop. "I couldna give him what he wanted—and he is friend enough not to ask it.

Yes," he said softly. "I know about him. It doesn't

How little you know of women, my love," I said.

Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.

What hurts you cleaves my heart," he said softly. "Ye ken that, aye?

You can talk to a babe, ye ken,' she said suddenly, breaking into my thought. 'Really talk, I mean. You can tell them anything, no matter how foolish it would sound did ye say it to a soul could understand ye.

For a friend, John," he said. "And if I'll take your friendship—and your damned boat!—then you'll take mine, and keep quiet. Aye?

she became aware that

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.

We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

My mother never once asked me to stay at home, because she knew acting was something I really wanted to do. She was great.

When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.