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Quotes About Forgiveness

Trent was Cincinnati's most eligible bachelor, still single because of me. He'd thanked me for that in a weird moment of honesty when he thought we might die in a demon's prison cell. I was still wondering why I'd bothered to save his little elf butt. Misplaced responsibility, maybe? That I'd saved his life didn't seem to mean anything to him, since he had tried to make my skull one with a tombstone not three seconds after I got us safe.
~ Kim Harrison
Jenks made a face. "He turned my son into a thief and broke my partner's heart. Why should I give him a draft of consideration?
~ Kim Harrison
We don't forget, Rachel, and it's not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us.
~ Kim Harrison
Was I a fool to trust, or a wiser person finding the capacity to forgive?
~ Kim Harrison
How is it that young people most need our love when they least deserve it?
~ Kim Heacox
And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn's stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told them about it years later, not at all pleased with them.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A mammal never forgets a hurt;
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Some mistakes you never can make good.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
So much for Phyllis's bridge," Nadia said. "So much for Phyllis," said Sax.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
get in touch with him at all. But then, like clockwork, he would finally call her back the next morning, waking her up and apologizing for dropping off to sleep a lot earlier than usual or for not seeing that she had called him until that very moment.
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
the beautiful clothing to all the summer vacations her father took her on annually, Diane had bragged, bragged, and bragged some more, and Serena had never truly gotten over it or forgiven her sister.
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
Mother says I have no heart for my own kind. She doesn't know. I have too much. I know what we have done, and what we deserve.
~ Kingsolver Barbara
If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
Jeg synes synd i dig, Åse, men fortryt ikke på at jeg ler når jeg ser dig, haha, du er så stiv og indtørket, du har vel ikke engang vand i skrævet. Jeg kunde hjelpe dig med en skjærv, men jeg vil ikke had dig på fingrene. Nei. Du er det som det ikke engang er navn på fra Gud, så ussel er du. Bli i freden!
~ Knut Hamsun
Vergiss Kränkungen, doch Vergiss Freundlichkeiten nie.
~ Konfuzius
You're still... Declan?-- --Voice hoarse, he said, Aye, it's me. I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!
~ Kresley Cole
Your retaliation is unspeakable. For this alone, you must forgive me for my treatment of you. Still high-handed? I literally risked my neck just now to say that in front of you.
~ Kresley Cole
Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark)
~ Kresley Cole
Do you know what's so strange, Uilleam?" she asked, saying his name perfectly. "You have never, in your entire life, done something for which you should truly be ashamed. You think you have, but you haven't. Not until you hurt your own mate, blaming the poor girl for things she can't control." - NIX to MacRieve ~
~ Kresley Cole
He gave her an indulgent look. I'll forgive these rash words for now. She sputtered, Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who. Whom, he corrected. Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?
~ Kresley Cole
Lachlain said, Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children. So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up.
~ Kresley Cole
When do you give up on someone you love?
~ Kresley Cole
Look, I think maybe we've been hurt so often that even if someone harms us accidentally, we're blind to see it that way.
~ Kresley Cole