That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
We live with the decisions we makeThatโs what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.