Quotes About Understanding

it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there

I don't speak, I wrote. I'm sorry. She looked at the piece of paper, then at me, then back at the piece of paper, she covered her eyes with her hands and cried, tears seeped between her fingers and collected in the little webs, she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby, so I ripped the page from the book -I don't speak. I'm sorry.-and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara,[...]

La crueldad depende de que uno comprenda que está siendo cruel y de las posibilidades que tiene a su alcance para evitarla.

E asa de greu sa te exprimi. - Eu inteleg. - Eu vreau sa ma exprim. - La fel si eu. - Imi caut vocea. - E in gura ta.

gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei.

Ze wil weten of ik van haar hou, dat is eigenlijk het enige wat de ene mens van de ander wil, het gaat niet om de liefde op zich, maar om het idee dat de liefde er is.

there are only so many times that you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

The ground is still filled iwth rings, and money, and pictures, and Jewish things. I was only able to find a few of them, but they fill the earth. The hero did not ask me once what she was saying. I am not certain if he knew what she was saying, or if he knew not to inquire.

I pulled the book from him.     It was wet with tears running down the pages, as if the book itself were crying.     He hid his face in his hands.     Let me see you cry, I told him. I do not want to hurt you, he said by shaking his head left to right. It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me, I told him.     Let me see you cry.

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees.

Ik wist niet wat hij voelde want ik kende de taal van zijn gevoel niet

You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child. (But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.) I do not understand, I said. (I understand.) You do not? he said. (You do.) ... I am not a bad person, he said. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time. I know this, I said. (Even if you were a bad person, I would still know you are a good person.)

Everyone could know what everyone else felt, and we could be more careful with each other, because you'd never want to tell a person whose skin was purple that you're angry at her for being late, just like you would want to pat a pink person on the back and tell him, "Congratulations!

In its eyes I was sure I saw some form of understanding, but I didn't see forgiveness.

That's not true, I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me and be understood.

How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company. Or I would have made some jewelry for him. Or told him hilarious jokes. Or given him a private tambourine concert.

and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Un giorno farai per me cose che hai in odio. E' questo che vuol dire essere una famiglia.

It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato.

I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.

How do you know all that?" "I like knowing things." "Me, too.

Intr-o zi, tu ai sa faci pentru mine lucruri care nu-ti plac. Asta inseamna familie.

a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.