“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“Sometimes things make more sense the second time around. People change, you change and the universe changes, if we keep ourselves confined to first chances only, we will truly miss out on some of the most beautiful things in life.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You try every trick in the book to keep her...You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared…You say won’t go. But in the end you do.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.”— Kathryn Schulz, Penny Beernsten, amazon.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hate myself. Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did. Go slow. I’m new to this but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop without jumping. I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. We…”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wo…”— Cheryl Strayed, goodreads.com
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com