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“Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.”
“Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?"I still can't look up. But I nod."It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not...”
“He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”
“No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
“Guilt rarely listens to reason ...”
“I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.”
“more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.”
“She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.”
“When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.”
“We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.”
“It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.”
“No one else could see all the bodies shed left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was just her, looking at herself, and not liking what she saw. Knowing she could never esca...”
“It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.”
“Guilt had teeth and it ate folks up if they didn't know how to tame it”
“How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?”
“It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.”
“It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.”
“But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.”
“What do you feel like you SHOULD be doing instead of writing? IF you have an answer, then you have guilt. The "should" of life are always linked to guilt.”
“It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.”
