Quotes About Apology

You hurt me, Mikhail, really hurt me." "I know, little one, I am sorry. Please forgive me." A small smile tugged at the corner of her mouth. "Is it really that easy?" His thumb erased a tear trickling down her face. "No, but it is all I have to give you at this moment.

Raven has to feel I have reverence for human life." He offered the explanation by way of an apology. "You do," Gregori snapped, his voice terse. "More than you probably should.

He caught her hand, curling his fingers around hers and bringing it to his chest as he leaned into her. I'm sorry for being a dick. Sometimes I just am, but I'll watch it. Giovanni snorted his derision. Sometimes? Don't believe a fucking thing he says, Mariko. It's 'all' the time.

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are god's apology for relations. (p. 129)

The church has made efforts to apologize for all this, but its complicity with fascism is an ineffaceable mark on its history, and was not a short-term or a hasty commitment so much as a working alliance which did not break down until after the fascist period had itself passed into history.

Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." I

Sorry. Accident. Couldn't be helped.

It's a note. Let me read it for you. 'Couldn't anyone else see that they were all slaves of Satan? I had to cleanse the world of their evil. I am the hand of God. Why else would security have let me into the building with an assault rifle in my suitcase? I am a divine instrument.'" Tommy paused and looked up. "That's all I have so far, but I'll guess I end it with an apology to my mom. What do you think?

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

MAKING AMENDS "You are late," said Nasuada as Eragon and Angela found

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

desire to rectify all injustice that I may have done to individuals

I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.

Without mourning, in its psychoanalytic sense,113 an apology and forgiveness can neither be given nor received by groups that have been traumatized by others.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Leni got to her feet, stared at him. I didn't mean to do that. The same words she'd heard spoken by her dad.

but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

she'd sometimes wondered what good all those sorries were if nothing ever changed

To forgive even when the apology tendered was as thin as fishing line and as breakable as a promise to do better.

She had made a terrible, grievous mistake. She couldn't take it back, however much she might hope for such a chance; she couldn't undo it, but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

probably never said I love you to another human being . . . How could Kate have said that? And then not called to apologize . . . or to say hello . . . or even to wish her a happy birthday?

Please, don't apologize. These are the moments I live for. Reuniting a book with its rightful owner can be magical.

I said I was sorry." "Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.