R. A. Salvatore Quotes

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I resemble the father I once hated.

So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.