Quotes About Understanding

This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.

I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says. I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Tell me who I am. (29)

Lia," he whispered. "Lia." And I heard the words I love you, even if he didn't say them.

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

His eyes narrowed as if contemplating the gravity of the unforgivable. That was what I both hated and loved about Rafe. He challenged me on everything I said, but he also listened intently. He listened as if every word I said mattered.

My mother's abscence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between.

Which weakness shall I tell her? "I walk funny," I say, and she's satisfied with that. (inside joke)

He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.

Did he even know what love was? For that matter, did I? Even my parents didn't seem to know. I crossed my arms behind my head as a pillow. Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.

The truth circled and gathered her into its arms.

Then we come from opposite but similar worlds, don't we?

You have to make your peace with Kaden, and he with you. You are not on opposite sides anymore. Do you understand?

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them. " - Pg 207

For everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.