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Quotes About Forgiveness

Sweet Jude, you're my dearest punishment
~ Holly Black
I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.
~ Holly Black
I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
~ Holly Black
You didn't get what you deserved, but you don't have to live inside that one story forever. No one's heart has to remain stone.
~ Holly Black
I remember what it was to hate him with the whole of my heart, but I've remembered too late.
~ Holly Black
Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down.
~ Holly Black
Jude. You are in no mood for games, very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright; You are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.
~ Holly Black
If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.
~ Holly Black
Jude, You are in no mood for games. Very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright: you are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home. Cardan
~ Holly Black
I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us," Vivi said, "than to be mad at the people who deserve it.
~ Holly Black
I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
~ Holly Black
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
~ Holly Black
So long as you're begging, he doesn't mind a bit.
~ Holly Black
What do you think he did to me to deserve to die?" I ask. He stokes the fire. Sparks fly up. "I assumed he broke your heart. An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart.
~ Holly Black
Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is presents . And in the real world, Santa's not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa's lap.
~ Holly Black
Corny nodded, but when he moved to put the key in the ignition, Luis's hand stopped him. When he turned, their mouths met. "I'm sorry... that I've been," Luis said in between kisses,"distracted... by everything. Is it morbid... that I'm talking...?" Corny murmured something that he hoped sounded like agreement as Luis's fingers dug into his hips, pushing him up so they could crush their bodies closer together.
~ Holly Black
That's your problem in a nutshell. You're judgmental. Everyone makes mistakes. They trust the wrong people. They fall in love. Not you, though. And that's why it's so hard to ask you for forgiveness.
~ Holly Black
If someone were hitting Aaron over the head, he would thank them for stopping.
~ Holly Black
Are you enjoying yourself?" I overhear Nicasia ask Locke once, as he joins them for a lecture. "Cardan won't forgive you for what you're doing with her.
~ Holly Black
Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.
~ Holly Black
If it's hard for you to bear what you did, give me the weight.
~ Holly Black
Many nights I drifted off to sleep to his rumbling voice reading from a book of battle strategy. And despite myself, despite what he'd done and what he was, I came to love him. I do love him. It's just not a comfortable kind of love.
~ Holly Black
I tried to kill you,' she reminds me. 'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.
~ Holly Black