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Quotes About Forgiveness

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would have surely resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.
~ Suzanne Collins
I want to interrupt the taping and beg Finnick's forgiveness for every false thought I've ever had about him.
~ Suzanne Collins
Yo también —reconozco, aunque no sé qué decirle sobre las consecuencias de matar a una persona, sobre cómo esa persona sigue dentro de ti para siempre.
~ Suzanne Collins
And I know I'm not alone. As badly as I have hurt him,
~ Suzanne Collins
The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don't know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm sorry. About screaming at you yesterday." "I've heard worse," she says. "You've seen how people are, when someone they love is in pain.
~ Suzanne Collins
somos los trágicos amantes del Distrito 12, los que han sufrido tanto y han disfrutado tan poco de la recompensa de su victoria, los que no buscan el favor de los admiradores, ni los agasajan con sonrisas, ni aceptan sus besos. No perdonamos. Y me encanta. Por fin soy yo misma.
~ Suzanne Collins
I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least, has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.
~ Suzanne Collins
Perhaps the people of District Twelve are not quite so bad as you paint them.
~ Suzanne Collins
So what do you remember?" "You. In the rain," he says softly. "Digging in our trash bins. Burning the bread. My mother hitting me. Taking the bread out for the pig but then giving it to you instead.
~ Suzanne Collins
You think I'm heartless." "I know you're not. But I won't tell you it's okay," I say.
~ Suzanne Collins
it means that I will never stop owing Finnick Odair. Ever. So how can I kill him in his sleep?
~ Suzanne Collins
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. And a traitor. But at the moment, I don't care. Not what he says, or who he says it for, only that he is still capable of speech.
~ Suzanne Collins
It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks,
~ Suzanne Collins
And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.
~ Suzanne Collins
So you'll forget her and move on." I suppose I will. As soon as I forget how to breathe.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Well, I think you should leave the past in the past. Things happened during the war that might not have happened any other time. You won't be doing anyone any favours digging up a load of trouble after all this time
~ Suzanne Fortin
There are disagreements and conflicts in the relationship, but each individual cares enough about the other to make up and forgive. (Dogs forgive us far easier than we forgive them.) Parents
~ Suzanne Hetts
I knew there was a good man inside somewhere. I'd known him, and I'd loved him. I believed he loved me, too, but I brought out the worst in him. I
~ Suzanne McMinn
He said that some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
~ Suzanne Young
Shame is the best teacher.
~ Suzanne Young
But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left.
~ Suzanne Young
We all have guilt. It just can't be all that we have.
~ Suzanne Young