I Understood Quotes

249 quotes by 219 authors

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be… — James A. Baldwin
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… — Anton Chekhov
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was… — Alice Hoffman
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. — Alice Hoffman
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you — Jodi Picoult
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A… — Ilona Andrews
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. — Brenda Ueland
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood… — Jodi Picoult
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. — Miranda July
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… — Albert Camus
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was… — Jodi Picoult
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing… — Doris Lessing
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of… — Dorianne Laux
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) — Milan Kundera
I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away… — Kelley Armstrong
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… — Albert Camus
I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid… — Kathryn Stockett

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