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“I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.”
“Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.”
“If I was president of the Slime Committee, I'd make it easier to come clean about shit. If coming clean is what you're supposed to do, then it should be made more fucken accessible, I say.”
“I should have forgiven him.Maybe. Maybe theres more we all could have done, he says, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that ...”
“I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.”
“But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.”
“And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you d...”
“Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?”
“Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled u...”
“Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.”
“This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.”
“Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.”
“Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty ...”
“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”
“...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.”
“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning our life held a joy and amazement ...”
“She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have done it; nobody will know the...”
“Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesnt matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.”
“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words ...”
“You know this is wrong."It isn't a question. When he turns, White is still wrapped snug in the counterpane, motionless, just his gaze pursuing the doctor about the room. "I am wrong to do this." Th...”
