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Quotes About Understanding

Pero ¿me perdonarás? —No necesito perdonarte. —Alargué la mano para coger la suya—. Tú no puedes ofenderme. —Hablé con cierta precipitación, pero con toda la convicción de mi corazón.
~ Madeline Miller
Sometimes you must be content with ignorance
~ Madeline Miller
I reached for his hand and took it. I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me. They were rash words, but I said them with all the conviction of my heart.
~ Madeline Miller
I'm sure you're right. After all, Hector hasn't done anything to you." He smiled then, as I had hoped he would. "Yes," he said. "I've heard that.
~ Madeline Miller
Tampoco él sabía enfadarse conmigo. Éramos como un bosque mojado en el que no prendía el fuego.
~ Madeline Miller
Do you always talk to pigs when I am gone?
~ Madeline Miller
Sotto i rami spogli soffrivamo insieme, io per l'uomo che avevo conosciuto, e lui per l'uomo che non era riuscito a conoscere.
~ Madeline Miller
I grew to understand her expressions first, the thoughtful quiet of her eyes,
~ Madeline Miller
And I was pleased, because I felt that he had seen her, had understood why I spent my days with her when he was gone. She was one of us now, I thought. A member of our circle, for life.
~ Madeline Miller
I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.
~ Madeline Miller
El príncipe decía lo que pensaba y se sorprendía cuando tú no lo hacías. Algunas personas habrían tomado esta actitud como una muestra de simplicidad, pero ¿no es una muestra de genialidad buscar un atajo al corazón?
~ Madeline Miller
Il n'y avait rien au monde que j'avais plus envie d'entendre que ce qu'il n'avait pas dit.
~ Madeline Miller
I would know it in dark, or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.
~ Madeline Miller
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong. 'Patroclus,' he said. He was always better with words than I.
~ Madeline Miller
no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.
~ Madeline Miller
He would have of me only what I wanted to give.
~ Madeline Miller
Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?
~ Madeline Miller
Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.
~ Unknown
I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.
~ Unknown
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
~ Mae West
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
~ Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
~ Mae West
How will I explain it all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to everybody?" "You know, people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.
~ Maeve Binchy
She said that it was dangerous to try to know somebody too well. People should have their own reserves, she said, the places they went in their minds, where no one else should follow.
~ Unknown