Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
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Zum Autor"Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going."
"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future."
"But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices."
"I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused."
"What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?"
"History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them."