Sarah Viren > Quotes

“forgiveness, is not about you letting that person off the hook. It’s about letting them have less control over your life. You don’t forgive as a form of absolution to them, you forgive as a means of lessening their psychic power over you. It’s grief work, she said, and part of that work is considering what you would have wanted to have happened instead of what did.”
― Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

“Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us. HANNAH ARENDT”
― Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories