“All of this was understood, and if not condoned, at least pardoned.”
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
“Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?”
“And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.”
“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.”
“The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.”