“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.”
“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”
“I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.”
“Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.”
“But what? But it was just so much easier to deal with the old pain by ignoring it? Forgetting it? Andy's presence meant having to actively work at forgiving him, and that was hard. Forgetting was much easier than forgiving--forgiving was an on-going process that had to continue past the dramatic declarations of apology and absolution.”
“...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...”