“I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.”

“The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.”

“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.”

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

“This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.”

“I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.”