“I need you to hear all of this, not just the parts that you want to hear. I’m forgiving you. But I’m not doing it for you. I don’t know if you deserve forgiveness, and maybe I don’t care. Maybe there isn’t some great balance sheet of forgiveness where the equation of guilt can be figured until it’s all equal on both sides. Maybe it’s just what the person who was hurt feels, right or wrong. And if so, then I don’t want to think about what you deserve. I want to think about what I deserve.”
