“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”
“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?”
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.”
“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
“It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.- Brom”
“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”