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Quotes About Understanding

Don't ask," Micah said. "They've been best friends for years. Sometimes you just nod and let them have their guy moment." Dr. Cross frowned harder. "I don't understand." "I'm the wife," Micah said, "she's the husband, and he's the husband's best friend. Does that explain it?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Why do you borrow such sorrows when they are far away, and I am right here?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
me. "I don't know you," Edward said. "I came in just after you left," Simon said. "Simon?" Edward made the name a question, and the big man seemed to understand what was being asked. "As in whatever the fuck Simon says, you damn well better do." How colorful, I thought, but didn't say out loud.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It is vampire trickery, but as Richard said things he truly believed, so I think Anita and I have come to an understanding. We are tired of this, Ulfric. We are tired of you making us the villains. If we are the villains, then let go. If we are not the villains, then hold on, but either way, you know what I must do now. If you do not wish to be part of it, then you must separate from us.' 'Let
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If this is not love, ma petite , then I know nothing of it. If this is not love, then no one since time began has ever loved. You ask yourself What is love? Am I in love? when what you should be asking, is What is not love? ma petite . What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You really do want everyone around you to be happy, don't you?" "Yeah, doesn't everyone want that for their friends?" He smiled then, and shook his head. "No, Anita. No, they don't." "If you really care for people, you want them to be happy, Damian; otherwise you don't actually care for them." "You don't think like any other woman I've ever met.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Winning meant saving lives. Winning meant we survived. Winning meant the monsters died. It was simple math and anyone who didn't understand that vampire hunting was just that simple wasn't going to be very good at the job.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
fear is not truly the same as respect. I'm learning that, at last.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Perché sei arrabbiata?» Chinai la testa perché aveva ragione. «Non chiederlo, okay? Lascia che il malumore mi passi e proverò anch'io a lasciare che passi.»
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Bless his chauvinistic heart
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd also offered me a protein bar, which I would have turned down, but he gave me that look that people have been getting from their significant others since probably before written language.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
What do you say while someone whispers horrors in your ear, tells you their most intimate, nightmarish secrets? You sit and you listen. And you give them the only thing you can—the silence and the safety to talk and to be heard.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd let his anger take him to a place that his ass might have trouble getting out of, or maybe I just didn't understand the normal branch of the service whose badge I carried. She put her elbows on the arms of her chair, her hands like a double fist in front of her lips. "Second, get the fuck off my desk." Oh, I did understand the normal branch of the service. It worked just like all the others.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I feel that anything I say, or do, in this moment, will upset you." It was the most diplomatic way I'd ever been told that I was a pain in the ass. I fought the urge to scream at him.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Was that an insult?' 'If you have to ask, then indeedy-do, it was.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
But one thing I'd learned in therapy was that just because a feeling made no sense didn't make you stop feeling it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Sapevo che sei molto difficile ed esigente prima ancora che diventassimo una coppia.» «Stai dicendo che sapevi in quale guaio ti stavi cacciando?» Jean-Claude annuì. «Come qualunque uomo quando decide di amare una donna. Ci sono sempre misteri e sorprese in ogni rapporto d'amore, ma... Sì, avevo una certa idea del guaio in cui mi stavo cacciando, e mi ci sono cacciato volontariamente, bramosamente.»
~ Laurell K. Hamilton