143 Quotes About Explanation

Inspiration needs no explanation.

Explain yourself!" he commanded."Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman?""I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has aright to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life." (page 90)

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

Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog početka.

The novel is describing a time in which she felt hope, beauty, elation, joy ,wonder, anticipation-these are things these friends gave to her and this is why they mattered so much. Her rage corresponds to the immensity of what she has lost. It doesn't matter in a way whether all these emotions were the result of real interactions or of fantasy, she experienced them fully. And in losing them, has lost happiness.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

I do loathe explanations.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

There are alternate explanations for everything.