Understood Quotes

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...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
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
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And… — Ana Castillo
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it… — Charlotte Gray
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us… — Khalil Gibran
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We… — Marianne Williamson
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the… — William Butler Yeats
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and… — Cynthia Rylant
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a… — Franz Kafka
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
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
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was… — Toni Morrison
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
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books… — Cornelia Funke
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black… — Arthur Phillips
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant… — Amy Tan
You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that much, didn't you?"… — Cassandra Clare
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
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence… — Jeanette Winterson
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard… — Elizabeth McCracken
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. — Niels Bohr

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