Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I've got some repenting to do.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

I did a lot of things I regret.

I am a big sinner.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.