Quotes about Understanding
Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.
— Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
— Alice Hoffman
I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.
— Alice Hoffman
She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
— Alice Hoffman
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.
— Alice Hoffman
She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
— Alice Hoffman
To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.
— Alice Hoffman
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
— Alice Hoffman