I Understood Quotes

249 quotes by 219 authors

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone.… — Jane Hirshfield
Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. â€œHeâ€™ll spare you,â€ Eric said,… — Charlaine Harris
Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell… — Rick Riordan
I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?"… — Stephen King
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I… — Sarah Dessen
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood… — John Gardner
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever… — Jodi Picoult
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then… — Cecelia Ahern
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one,… — Janet Fitch
I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood… — Judy Blundell
Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself. — Glenn Beck
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart
When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen… — Therese of Lisieux
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for… — Anne Lamott
She looked around herself, disoriented, like sheâ€™d forgotten we were at lunch. Like sheâ€™d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone… — Stephenie Meyer
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. — Lisa See
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to… — Augusten Burroughs

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