“Don't you understand? I was PROCURING for him.”
“I knew him, but I don't understand him.”
“I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him”
“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.”
“Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.”
“And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in the very moment when I love them--""You beat them." For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding."No, you don't understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist.”