Quotes About Understanding

You do like me, don't you? Even though I'm apparently communicatively handicapped and socially retarded?

Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.

If you don't want me to buy you silly gifts with great emotional import, don't disappear in the middle of the mall.

I can get mad all I want, but they don't mean it. They love me. Sometimes, some creatures, when they get cornered, they forget who loves them and think everybody's the enemy. You don't just leave them alone, cold and afraid, because their instinct takes over and it's wrong. You don't if you give a shit, you know?'

The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.

I'd give anything to know you were okay. But it's not fair to ask us to sacrifice that boy so you can heal. Do you understand?

Sometimes people hurt each other, just by being. It's not your fault.

He was starting to learn that you didn't really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.

Cheever started rocking back and forth, shaking, and Cambridge made an unhappy little sound. "Oh, son. Pain makes you selfish, did you not know that?

guess," he said thoughtfully. "I mean… it's not like… it's not like he's going to be anything other than Deacon, right?

No," Sammy said, shrugging. "It makes sense. Cierra has two moms, so it's got to balance somewhere. I'm sorry you can't eat dinner with us.

but Mason finally realized that he'd met someone who saw life in the same terms Mason always had: how best to care for and feed that strange animal that had been born between his legs. "You're so clever," Terry said in admiration. Dane showed up right then with clothes, which Terry said thank you for before disappearing into the bathroom.

Yeah, well, the one thing I've learned this past year? It's that worry means love.

yelling, snarling, Russian-bear fight about your fucking job and how much I want you to quit. Be prepared. It will not break us up, and I am not drawing a line in the sand, and I am not going to push you away, but I will be heard, do you understand me?

Easier than blood," he said softly, and my breath caught, because we both knew I had blood on my hands, and I suspected he had a little of his own. "Yeah, but don't no one but us know that.

There is no cure for hell," she said softly. "There's only showing it to other people so they can share the burden.

If I'm your friend, you know anything is forgivable. Being lovers is harder. Let's get our shit sorted first.

And Ariadne was crying. "You get that," she said, her voice thick. "How come you can get that for my baby, but you can't get it for you?

So you tell Dad, and you two can make your peace with me not being the son you planned on. And I hope you decide to love the son you have." He took a deep breath and saw her expression transition from shock to irritation to hurt.

THE BEST relationships are made of quiet times,

you don't have to be a saint to want to be treated like a human being, do you know that? Yes, I know he's an addict. So the hell what? You don't write him off because of it. You don't write me off because I care for him. We're people, that's all. Miserable, stupid, fucked-up people, and all we have in this world to hold on to is each other. Can you understand that?

But that was okay, because Grant laughed too and met Mackey's eyes in a moment of understanding for just the both of them. He'd hurt too.

All I'm saying is kids want a family. I'm saying a good family needs to understand that kids are going to be themselves. None of that changes when you grow up. You are not going to stop wanting the family you grew up with—that was safe for you. And they are going to need to accept you as you are, good and bad, gay or straight, if they're going to claim they've done their jobs.

You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.