Alexandra Whitaker > Quotes

“Forgiveness” was a word that passed uneasily through her thoughts. It was a fat word, a rancid word that smelled of sickly sanctity, a word used for scolding and manipulating people who have been mistreated. A con man’s word.”
― Alexandra Whitaker, Leaving Sophie Dean

“Wiping the offender’s conscience clean is not the duty of the offended. It wasn’t difficult to guess which of the two sides, sinner or sinned against, had invented the concept of forgiveness.”
― Alexandra Whitaker, Leaving Sophie Dean