What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind... And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again... Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free.