“..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.”

“I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake”

“Who taught us to bow our headswhile waiting for trains? to touchlumber without regret and sing privatelyor not at all? To invest the seasonwith forgiveness and coax from ita hopeful omen? Lord knowsthe hope would heal this little fear.But who taught us to fear?”

“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”

“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”

“Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.”