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Quotes About Understanding

Simple is the opposite of hard, easy is also the opposite of hard. But simple is not the same as easy. Not at all.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes, Belle, our troubles are too deep for words," Lumiere said. "It's at times like those when we need our friends the most
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Quién iba a decirme que escuchar a un chico dormido podía ser mucho más profundo que dormir con un chico.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I'm so glad you're not dumb, Yaz," Neela said. Yazeed shot her a sidelong glance. " I thought you were going to say dead ." "That too." "Hey, thanks.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Es una pena que no entienda que la música vive. Eternamente. Que es más poderosa que la muerte. Más poderosa que el tiempo. Y que su fuerza te sostiene cuando ya no hay nada que pueda sostenerte.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Love was the same way.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There has to be a reason things are the way they are here. If only I can find out what it is.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
she knew that, like her, I saw the world as it is, not as I would have it be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
What can I say? I merely wish to smoke. Sparky can forgive that. You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There are reasons," she said. "If you knew… if I could tell you…" Her hands, resting on top of the table, knotted into fists. Her long blond hair, pale as moonlight, swirled around her shoulders. Her ice-blue eyes sought Serafina's. In them, Serafina could see a yearning to talk, to share what was troubling her.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I still had fifteen cents that I hadn't given to Pa, and I was using it that afternoon to buy candy for my sisters. Abby had her monthlies and was feeling awfully blue. She'd had the cramp something wicked that morning and had to lie down until it passed, and Pa asked me why she wasn't in the barn milking with the rest of us like he always does because he forgets, and then I had to explain and he got mad at me because it made him embarrassed.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Love—real love—sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She'd thought he might roar and rage, but he hadn't, and his sadness was even worse than his anger.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Stop yelling. If everyone's yelling, no one can be heard.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body.
~ Jennifer Echols
Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too.Is that love?"His hand clasped my hand again and squeezed. I swallowed. "It could be.
~ Jennifer Echols
I guess we both understood that our relationship was built entirely on witty repartee, and neither of us thought we could be witty on four hours of shut-eye.
~ Jennifer Echols
Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said.
~ Jennifer Echols
I saw myself exactly as he saw me. And that made me angry.
~ Jennifer Echols
Your love for me was a symptom that your brain hadn't developed.
~ Jennifer Echols
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
~ Jennifer Echols
Boys don't gossip." "Pah! You don't know us as well as you think." This was a disturbing prospect.
~ Jennifer Echols
Oh." My dad actually looked sheepish. "It's one o'clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn't realise what was going on in here." "What's going on in here?" Cameron asked suspiciously. "Maturity." My dad backed out of the room and closed the door.
~ Jennifer Echols