“
Sorry.Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another.
Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid.
Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence.
Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness.
Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But
Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.
Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge.
Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true.
Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap.
Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.”
―
Craig Silvey,
Jasper Jones
