“Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.”
“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.”
“I don't always understand poetry!''You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it...whenever.”
“i can't understand her"well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”
“Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".”
“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”