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Quotes About Reconciliation

What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize.
~ Rick Riordan
Thalia's shoulders relaxed. I owe you one. Two. One and a half, Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.
~ Rick Riordan
Yay!" Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.
~ Rick Riordan
Hi," Piper said, as casually as she could. "We're back.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father's throne.
~ Rick Riordan
Boy, Annabeth interrupted, I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.
~ Rick Riordan
Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.
~ Rick Riordan
You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.
~ Rick Riordan
But enemies can become friends.
~ Rick Riordan
Relationships are always worth restoring.
~ Rick Warren
Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.
~ Rick Warren
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.
~ Rick Warren
The Bible says, "You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others."14
~ Rick Warren
Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But
~ Rick Warren
Some might count sheep. Teddy counted the towns and cities he had tried to destroy, that had tried to destroy him. Perhaps they had succeeded.
~ Kate Atkinson
Neither of them wanted to be close to their father in life, so why would they want to be close to him in death?
~ Kate Atkinson
And Dan, who had maintained all during our schism that we were both insane, welcomed me back as if nothing had ever happened, still his same warm, laconic, wry self.
~ Kate Christensen
Mon Dieu, look, look, says Antoinette. He lives. He lives! And he seems such the happy mouse. Forgiven, whispers Lester. Cripes, says Furlough, unbelievable. Just so, says the threadmaster, Hovis, smiling. Just so. And, reader, it is just so. Isn't it?
~ Kate DiCamillo
it." "You dirty
~ Kate DiCamillo
It was because he had not loved Abilene enough. And now she was gone from him. And he would never be able to make it right.
~ Kate DiCamillo
them back. Sometimes, I hit them first." "Oh
~ Kate DiCamillo
I don't know how others reconcile what happened before with what happens now. For me, the past is a cool, dark pond in which I will always stand partially submerged. That's just the way it is.
~ Kate Walbert
How can you possibly reconcile the great inequities of gender – coupled with the perversions of age and the randomness of everything?
~ Kate Walbert
He, who hated to hurt people, had to begin to deal with all the hurt his actions had wrought—for me, for the children, for Robin, for himself.
~ Katharine Graham