Quotes About Understanding

Olivia leans in. Are you okay? His reply sticks in his wide, coprophagic grin.

What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don't even know what the experiment is testing. My wife would have known how to talk to the doctors. Nobody's perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.

We are not born familiar. At best, familiar waits for us down the run of years. Familiar is what he can become to her only through life. But familiar to herself, already, looking on him.

Everything about her felt familiar

We're sorry. We didn't know how hard it is for you to grow back.

But what did psychological mean anymore, except a process that did not yet have a known neurobiological substrate?

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment

life is trying to say something no one hears.

Earth's atmosphere at different times in history." You can't predict the past, Dad. "You can if you don't know it yet.

I'd given up on understanding my own hidden temperament a long time ago. Lots of monsters inhabited my sunless depths, but most of them were nonlethal.

Could there be whites who might not, after all, hate her on sight for the ungivable forgiveness they needed from her?

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

For the first time, she realizes that being alone is a contradiction in terms.

Un figlio scopre sempre le debolezze dei propri genitori. Le percepisce prima ancora delle parole, come una prima e ultima lezione. La debolezza può essere l'unica lezione dei genitori destinata a durare nel tempo. (p. 247)

for footprint and understanding.

This is what people do- solve their own problems in others' lives.

She hears him, and understands. This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

People. So much pain.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.

people see better what looks like them.

In a few short seasons, simply by placing billions of pages of data side by side, the next new species will learn to translate between any human language and the language of green things.

Here's the thing about an apple: it sticks in the throat. It's a package deal: lust and understanding. Immortality and death. Sweet pulp with cyanide seeds.