“How can I forgive you? How can I forgive the person who killed me with the depth of her love?”

“Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?”

“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”

“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”

“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”

“I forgive you.
I don't condone or say that what you did to me was alright…
it was not.
I will never forget.
But I forgive you
for the sake of myself…so I may truly be Free.
I love Me.
Although it shall never be the same…
I can find it in my heart to
love you too.”

“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”

“The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?”