Never Really Knew You Quotes

#1. 'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

Alan Hollinghurst

#2. I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

Nora Roberts

#3. I do care, goddamn it! Have you been listening? I. Love. You. I never really knew what that meant until you.

Shayla Black

#4. You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.

Mary Robison

#5. There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.

Anne Rice

#6. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.

Reese Witherspoon

#7. Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Cicely Tyson

#8. Give me everything you have," I told [Preston].
"Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

#9. I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?

Nancy Richler

#10. It was so long ago now that the job felt like part of her soul. Like being a teacher or an artist who made things out of sand. You never really saw the results. You just trusted that you knew what you were doing and that everything would work out okay in the end.

Emma Straub

#11. My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Rick Wakeman

#12. One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Debra Ginsberg

#13. When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

Jackie French

#14. Here. (Zarek)
What is it? (Astrid)
Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek)
Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I've never had vomit before. I'm sure it's extra special. (Astrid)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Sometimes you can love someone that you never really knew.

Nancy Ann Healy

#16. I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.

David Bowie

#17. The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.

Ethel Kennedy

#18. I never knew until I came here [Hollywood] that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

Jean Seberg

#19. They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

Hannah Brencher

#20. You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die

Willa Cather

#21. I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it.

Tichina Arnold

#22. A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

David Baldacci

#23. What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

Louise Penny

#24. You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...

Jimmy Page

#25. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

#26. She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.
Humans could never know each other that way.
They could never really get into another person's head.
All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.

L.J.Smith

#27. You never knew what was coming in this world, not really. That was the true mystery, the true wonder. You just hung on and hoped for the best.

Joy Preble

#28. Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you

Erykah Badu

#29. There's a subtext, you know, 'Honey, I'm home' really means, 'take off your clothes and fuck me."

"I never knew that.

Sarina Bowen

#30. The thing about Whitney," I said, "is that she was always really private. So you never knew if anything was wrong with her.

Sarah Dessen

#31. Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Junot Diaz

#32. You think to yourself that if anyone knew who you really were, what you've really done, they would never accept you.

Emily P. Freeman

#33. I knew that there was an underlying thing there that I was never really able to come face to face with. There's a part of me that wants to always protect myself because of what I had gone through. But I learned that you have to let people in. Going to the therapist kind of helped me with that.

LaToya Jackson

#34. All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'

Jennifer Armentrout

#35. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

Lucy Liu

#36. Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Tom Clancy

#37. You were never really my father, he might say, or You were the only father I ever knew. Both statements were equally true, no matter how contradictory. When

Cassandra Clare

#38. You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.

Clive Davis

#39. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

Sarah Dessen

#40. I never knew what to say."
"Really? You seem comfortable enough with words."
"I have a formal and aesthetic relationship to words.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#41. IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.

Stacia Kane

#42. I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About.

J.D. Salinger

#43. If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.'
'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.

Michael Marshall Smith

#44. I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Christie Brinkley

#45. None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Fran Tarkenton