„Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.“

— Cassandra Clare

Tags:

„Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.“
— Fulton J. Sheen
„My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches [things] I had done…and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world.“
— Anthony Burgess
„No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.“
— C.G. Jung