fuck yeah, literary quotes

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.