Quotes About Understanding

now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

As she reads, I listen to her

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become

it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you.

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They

For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. "Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to have him. He knows that was our preference." I stared at him in disbelief. "Wow, just when I thought you might understand.

If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

And I think my husband knows who he married,' I say. Grady laughs. 'I would think if this taught you anything, it's that no one knows who they marry,' he says.

She gets to know two pieces of information. The best thing. And the worst. The rest? People think it makes them closer to know everything, but I'm not sure it's fair.

I'll just assume that whatever your mother did wrong, she did one thing great. That's you. She figured it out enough to make you. I can overlook the rest. And you can have the freedom to feel whatever you want toward her. With no judgment.

When you saw where the truth was, you wanted to get there as quickly as you could, before you lost sight of it again.

I unfold the paper. Owen's note is short. One line, its own puzzle. Protect her.

The part where someone looks at you, really looks at you, when you walk into a room. You either have that with someone or you don't.

Never, never, never could one conceive what love is beforehand, never. —D. H. Lawrence, after meeting his future wife

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.

think, or I used to think at least, that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you," I said. "Something that is worth preserving . . ." He

I think, or I used to think at least, that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you," I said. "Something that is worth preserving

We loved each other in the difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.

durante su niñez Tita no diferenciaba bien las lágrimas de la risa de las del llanto. Para ella reír era una manera de llorar. De igual forma confundía el gozo del vivir con el de comer. No era fácil para una persona que conoció la vida a través de la cocina entender el mundo exterior.

durante su niñez Tita no diferenciaba bien las lágrimas de la risa de las del llanto. Para ella reír era una manera de llorar. De

A Lupita le llevó muchos años de encierro descubrir que uno escucha mejor cuando está en silencio y que está mucho más acompañado en la soledad.