Richelle Mead Quotes

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

'Balthazar' is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy - with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.