Understood Quotes

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We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves… — Lauren Oliver
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly.… — Aimee Friedman
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fire will save the Clan...you never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when… — Erin Hunter
When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to… — Fiona Apple
That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's… — Bret Easton Ellis
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
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had… — Orson Scott Card
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.… — Joseph Campbell
Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God."… — Tanya Huff
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
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most… — Hunter S. Thompson
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her… — Milan Kundera

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