“If we can forgive what's been done to us… If we can forgive what we've done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 21

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