Abbey Quote by Jessica Verday

“That was for me: I can’t understand anything in general unless I’m carrying along in my mind a specific example and watching it go.”

— Richard Feynman

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

— William Golding

“What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.”

— Agatha Christie

“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don’t.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“All I wanted was to try and realize whatever was in me. Why was that so difficult?”

— Hermann Hesse

“I didn't know how to explain it, because I had never wanted to.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“I wanted to tell them that they had made a mistake. I wasn’t like them. I didn’t want the same things that they wanted,…

— Ling Ma

“he said, ‘I don’t understand.”

— Jill Paterson

“Maybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I…

— Raymond Chandler

“Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.”

— Larry Brooks

“I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why…

— Katie Kacvinsky