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"It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
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"Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose."
"He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked."
"I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)"
"Healing wasn't always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that."
"You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen."
"You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place."
"A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting."
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