Quotes about Understanding

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what had happened.

I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully understanding that, in the world God has given us, all things must change.

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.

To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.