Quotes About Understanding

She gave Samuel a stern look. "Now, I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman—" "Neither do we," I muttered. Samuel grinned. "We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes—Adam gets it—someday—and I don't. But the rest is still up for negotiation." "Samuel Cornick," I sputtered in disbelief. "That is my mother .

Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

You cannot look at a person, and say, 'If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.' Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.

my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'" She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd know the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

Argued with your back-fence neighbor," Adam said, his voice very gentle. "And watched him when he wasn't looking," I agreed. "Because every once in a while, especially after a full moon hunt, he'd forget that I could see in the dark, and he'd run around naked in the backyard." He laughed silently. "I never forgot you could see in the dark," he admitted.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him too closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.

Kyle blinked. I don't think I've ever seen him quite so … neutral. "You can talk to Adam when he's not in the room, and you don't have a phone?" he asked. I nodded. He closed his eyes, and I could read his expression when he opened them again. "Thank you, dear Lord," he said with relief. "I thought I was going crazy.

She had the sudden feeling that if she could look into those eyes for the rest of her life, she would be happy. It scared her a lot more than his anger had.

We watched the rest of the movie without talking. When it was over, Bran said, I love you." I said, " I know." Adam nudged me with his shoulder, and I laughed. "I love you, too.

Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.

just because one is submissive doesn't make them stupid. My experience has suggested the opposite. We have a saying, 'Listen when the soft ones speak.'" Smith

Stop that , Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do. But I do , Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.

My people eat yours," Larry informed the cat. Medea kneaded his thighs lightly and kicked her purr up a few notches. He gave in and started to pet her.

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)