She Understood Quotes

47 quotes by 42 authors

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates… — Richard Avedon
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without… — Kay Redfield Jamison
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she… — Sara Sheridan
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. — Abraham Verghese
Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to… — Susan Wiggs
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they?… — Stephen M. Irwin
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the… — Anita Shreve
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… — Octave Mirbeau
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with… — Paulette Jiles
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides
She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara.… — Robert Jordan
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw… — Shannon Hale
...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear,… — Audrey Niffenegger
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this… — Dean Koontz
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and… — Jane Austen
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy

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