I didn't understand this overwhelming attraction to a boy…

“Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity? Is my lunacy on the horizon, or…

— Ellen Hopkins

I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“At times, we fall in love. And as we fall, we don't realise how deeply we're falling, until we've completely fallen.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“Sorry, Ian," Cameron said. He found himself saying that to Ian quite a bit. "I didn't understand." Ian gave him a faint nod but…

— Jennifer Ashley

“I didn't understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced to settle.…

— Nenia Campbell

“She didn’t understand it, but everything about him reminded her that she was a woman.”

— Jill Shalvis

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

— Marion Cotillard

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think…

— Marisa Tomei

Someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I told them happy. They told me I didn't understand the question.…

— Nishan Panwar

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

— Leonard Susskind

“When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have…

— Tom Ford

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

— Sean Astin

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

— Anthony Hopkins