“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

“It was unforgiveable,” I said. “But I forgive you.”

“In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.”

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”