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“But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Educated
― Educated
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“That peace did not come easily. I spent two years enumerating my father’s flaws, constantly updating the tally, as if reciting every resentment, every real and imagined act of cruelty, of neglect, would justify my decision to cut him from my life. Once justified, I thought the strangling guilt would release me and I could catch my breath. But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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