“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”
— Isaac Asimov, book The Caves of Steel
Source: The Caves of Steel
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Geddy Lee (1953) vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush
"Cinderella Man"
“You'll fix me, because we're parabatai. We're forever.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html in The Annotated Pratchett File http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: As for The Mapp... I suspect it'll never get a US publication. It seemed to frighten US publishers. They don't seem to understand it.<br>That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:<br>A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?<br>I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
Ragnor Fell and Magnus Bane in 1791, p. 9.
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