Quotes About Realization

the planet has undergone change so wrenching that the diversity of life has plummeted. Five of these ancient events were catastrophic enough that they're put in their own category: the so-called Big Five. In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.

The fruit of prayer is the realization that life is an eternal adventure, and that we are explorers, always changing, always learning, always breaking open into new vistas of clarity and peace.

Well, shit." I forced a laugh. "I guess I do know what love is, after all." It was Clare. Always Clare.

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

It had been worse when he realised he wanted all of her, the laughter he had destroyed, the unconscious pride and dignity he had trampled and the sweet, innocent passion he had shamed.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.

I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't.

I told you we were meant to be,'he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but I who I just didn't see, and now- Well, now I kiss him. And just for the record, it's totally worth the tardy slip I end up getting.

I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.

To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.

The house where she had raised her son—never, ever realizing that she herself had been raising a motherless child, now a long, long way from home.

we kind of know who we are, without knowing it.

it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

It's odd how the mind does not take in anything until it can.

Ed era troppo tardi. Nessuno vuole mai credere che sia troppo tardi, ma lo sta sempre diventando. E poi lo è.

On the "hit-thumb theory" : "On his grandfather's roof as a child one summer, hammering tiles down hard, he'd discovered that if you hammered your thumb by mistake, there was a split second when you thought: Hey, this isn't so bad, considering how hard I was hit… And then—after that moment of false, bewildered, and grateful relief—came the crash and crush of real pain.

What we do matters is a thought Isabelle had again and again, as though just now, well into adult years, she was figuring this out.

These words rolled over Suzanne with a swiftness, as though something true had been said but she couldn't catch it.

What a really awful thing I had done. I had not thought of this until now. To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.