“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
“I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.”
“an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.”
“The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.”
“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.”