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Truant lets out a quiet warning growl.
of laughs. And Bill loves it when I do this!” He reaches out and pulls Bill’s
“Because it’s only hurt people who hurt people.”
Yup
“Celie, baby, you look around at people who are happy in themselves in their lives—they’re just busy living, having a good time. They don’t set out to be mean to other people. Their energy is going into other things. It doesn’t even occur to them to hurt someone else, or to try to make them feel small. In fact, they’re more likely to be building other people up.
Do this
“One of the things I come up against often in my practice is the notion of forgiveness. Do you want to repeat the mistakes your parents made? Holding on to your grievances for the rest of your life? Or do you want to put that burden down?”
Forgivenes
Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them. But if you’re going to hold up your mother and your father as villains of the piece it will be misguided and it is ultimately you who will suffer.”
Life is long.
Have you never made a mistake?” Lila thinks about Jensen, about the awful discarded chapter. Jane seems to note her flicker of uncertainty. “Well, I hope, if you have, that you were forgiven. I hope the person understood that you’re only human. You can hang on to anger and bitterness your whole life. But all you really do is prolong your own pain.
Mistakes.
