Quotes About Reconciliation

I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.

He was trying to make up for lost time and money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the value of either.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

Something had lubricated us. Something had washed us clean. I understood, and at the same minute I understood that that they all understood, too. Hate had passed away, and in its place was the other word that's just as big. ("Golden Baby")

Gawd might forgive but people never will.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Well, Hem, all's well that ends well, but it almost ended very badly. Almost in disaster." Hem looked down, and his cheeks flushed. Cadvan patted his shoulder. "I forgive you for almost getting us killed, or worse," he said.

He was coming home.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Mercy—or at least a nolle prosequi—may, perhaps, be the most appropriate conclusion to the crime—and the glory—of Robert E. Lee after all.32

Forgiveness doesn't excuse someone's actions, but it releases us from the pain they caused.

Allison Winn Scotch

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.

But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later.

We're not mad because you left… We're mad because you didn't us with you… You are back, Cam." Macey went into the bathroom and started to close the door. "Which means for the first time since you left, it's OK for us to be mad at you for leaving.

So you did come back. - To Cam

She is sitting right here!" Kat didn't realize she was yelling until her uncle looked at her in the manner of a man who has not been yelled at in a very long time. "I'm here." Kat said in a softer voice. She didn't say, I can hear you. She didn't tell him, I came home. She didn't promise, I'm not going anywhere. There were at least a dozen things that she might have said to reclaim her place at the table, but there was only one that really mattered.

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.