Forgiveness is about giving up the hope that the past could have been different
— Oprah Winfrey
In all this chaos, we found safety.
This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you’re clinging to and start over, whether because you’ve outgrown it or because it’s not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.
— Kelly Cutrone
Sometimes we do things that we can’t take back. Forgiveness is never easy. Bitterness is easy. Hatred is easy. But forgiveness, that’s a tough one. Sometimes, people say things they don’t mean or do things they can’t take back.
— One Tree Hill
The only people you need in your life are the ones that proved they needed you in theirs.
It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.
— Along for the Ride
Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we’re closest to can betray us. And total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.
— Desperate Housewives
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
— Dorothy Nevill
Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud didn’t erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
— Jodi Picoult (The Tenth Circle)
