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“He seemed to be saying that you are better off just driving away…”

“To get Justice we so desperately craved, we had to devote virtually all of our energy and waking moments to devising new and better ways of inflicting suffering upon the other side until they either surrendered or were defeated. This meant enduring the same suffering ourselves…we became an instrument of their suffering.”

“The kingdom of God can be entered only by the path of forgiveness.”

“Somehow we have taken similar paths. Our ending seems almost mathematically certain, the inevitable result of a series of parallel equations and geometric principles. We spent our lives protecting ourselves from the unbearable pain of injustice. We spent our lives renouncing the inconceivable possibility of forgiveness.”

“No good deed ever goes unpunished but whether a deed is good or bad appears to turn not on the nature or quality of deed itself but rather the amount of hatred that exists for those who are its intended beneficiaries.”

“Things happen in the heat of battle, he explained, and there is sometimes collateral damage.”

“That was heroic maybe, to take his own life so that he could no longer take the lives of others.”

“She was perfectly defenseless and thus perfectly indestructible, dependent upon everything and therefore perfectly independent.”

“But not the Soviets. Their crime was deliberate and their faces depraved. There can be no forgiveness for them. Ever.”

“People think the homeless are animals, but they’re just like everybody else. They had normal lives once— then something went wrong.”