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“It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.”
“Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held th...”
“There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.”
“Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun Cinzci's meat locker trying to decide which. Fortunately, when I tired of so...”
“Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.”
“We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.”
“I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the being who claimed Eldaloth's name faded and disintegrated with all the suffering life behind h...”
“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss ...”
“I touched curiosity,I kissed sin, I felt regret,And I was forgiven.But life won't let me forget.”
“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along t...”
“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”
“Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl”
“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
“When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”
“Were animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin”
“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.”
“I lay on my side with my head on the pillows and looked out of the window; the blue of the sky was so clear it almost hurt. I felt it come again. I didn't cry much, just a few tears rolling down, w...”
“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.”
“People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are ...”
“You stupid cow! He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. You really think anyone is better than you? Everyones a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their nei...”
