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“It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.”
“In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasnt the end.”
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankl...”
“She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on ...”
“Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.”
“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”
“Maybe you're starting to move on, my love. But to fully do it, you have to let the guilt go. Gabriel will always be an important part of your life. I don't even want to imagine how difficult it is ...”
“Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.”
“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”
“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?”
“So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.”
“To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it had been important, she wouldve called back, right? That was the line of...”
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”
“Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”
“Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.”
“Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”
“Guilt was its own prison.”
“I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty.”
“....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.”
“Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.”
