Quotes About Understanding

The woman knelt by Peretur, close enough to touch her on the knee, though she did not.

Peretur did not argue, she did not think of arguing. They were in accord, even though she could no longer see into Nimuë, in that shared moment she felt-and knew Nimuë felt-that they had known each other all their lives.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

Hild realised that every shape the man's body made refused the words, and the bard was nodding along. The bard had made the speech.

Now his knowledge was her knowledge.

I'm your friend. I have been for a long time, even if I sometimes wonder if you know what that means.

Remember when you asked me why I didn't hit Geordie? It was because I don't know how. That little girl in Arkansas doesn't, either. You do. I know that.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

Tell my mother: They are my people. They are my path. It's where I belong. She'll understand.

Hild nodded, but couldn't say anything. Soft, shocking echoes lapped at her bones and squeezed her insides. Gwladus kept stroking her belly and the echoes began to run into one another like ripples on a pond, and then slowly calmed.

It was obvious." "Maybe to you.

She looked him in the eye, the eyes she'd seen wide with lust, not with tears, shining with joy.

Her mother, changing sides so gradually, so carefully that even Hild hadn't noticed.

Maybe when I come home at night I want comfort and the smell of coffee and to feel safe. For the first time, I understood something about Dornan before he did.

We could acknowledge it between us as long as it remained unspoken.

They took a moment, the grown man in clothes foreign to him and the young girl in splendour she could barely carry, and understood each other. He laughed.

Whoever you are, Peretur, I would have you.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more

Reading Nietzsche as a response is not understanding him. Nietzsche is an immense interrogation.

Unnütz, jemandem einen Gedanken erklären zu wollen, dem eine Anspielung nicht genügt.