Unforgiven Quotes

“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”
― Clint Eastwood

“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Unforgiveness,

splinter in your breastbone, lives
there lodged like a small tree.
Withers in winter, looms
in spring. Its fruit is sweet
on first bite, then turns
into the taste of your own flesh.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer, The Porcupine of Mind

“Because the truth was, and we both knew it, he'd gone long, long ago. I'd just made him stick around when he really wanted to be somewhere else. In his own weird way, he was another victim of the shooting, One of the ones who couldn't get away.
"Are you mad?" he asked, which I thought was a really strange question.
"Yes," I said. And I was. It's just that I wasn't so sure I was mad at him. But I don't think he needed to hear that part. I don't think he wanted to hear that part. I think it was important to him to hear that I cared enough to be angry.
"Will you ever forgive me?" he asked.
"Will you ever forgive me?" I shot back, leveling my gaze directly into his eyes.
He stared into them for a few moments then got up silently and headed for the door. He didn't turn around when he reached it. Just grabbed the doorknob and held it.
"No," he said without facing me. "Maybe that makes me a bad parent, but I don't know if I can. No matter what the police found, you were involved in that shooting, Valerie. You wrote those names on that list. You wrote my name on that list. You had a good life here. You might not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy."
He opened the door."I'm sorry. I really am." He stepped out into the hallway. "I'll leave my new address and phone number with your mother," he said before walking slowly out of my sight.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“I knew you could never forgive me," he said, "so I ran away. I thought I had lost you for good. But then I found this second chance, and I came here to redeem myself. This time with you has shown me that my love for you is bigger than my fear. My love for you is bigger than anything I know."
A tear rolled down his cheek. He closed his eyes. He had so much more to say and so little time for it to matter.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“Then she was at the bottom, in the filtered light, alone. Black water filled her nose and mouth, her stomach, her lungs.
Her soul.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“This whole time, I've been in Hell?" She stepped away from Cam, out of the spotlight and into darkness.
"Because of you.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“Before Cam, music had been an escape, passion, a daydream, love, an impossibility.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“She was luminous. Her red hair had been braided a dozen ways, all swirled together in a high shaggy twist. Her eyelids were shimmering green, her lips crimson and matte. She wore black vintage ankle-high motorcycle boots. She was lethal.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“The starlight, which seemed strangely bright tonight, wasn't starlight at all. Instead, Lucifer's demons had gathered high in the firmament above. It was their eyes that shone like stars through the wildfire smoke.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“She does look beautiful, though, doesn't she?'
'The stuff of love songs,' Cam said.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“Killers could never be forgiven by their victims.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“His hands grasped her waist and lifted her until she could have sworn that his feet had come off the ground, too; that they were floating up above the creek, above the trees, above the burning hillside, into the dense tangle of stars, about to kiss the moon.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“Everyone here felt like they were on the brink of something, when in fact they were only on the brink of the end.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“One that society can't forgive, but I can.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“When you get everything aligned, when love welcomes the longing, accepts it, learns to live with it, you make love.”
― Anne Calhoun, Unforgiven

“You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone

“Lilith blinked, making out what looked like a dark cave at sunset, the sky fiery with streaks of red and orange.”
― Lauren Kate, Unforgiven

“He tries to please them all, this bitter man he is.”
― James Hetfield