“As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.” UniverseStageSweetSourcePrayingForgivingGuidesPlentyManagersGenerousGoddessHornsI PrayPlentifulStage Managers Author:Rebecca Wells
“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.” IfsWorldDesireForgetYouthSweetForgivingTheeMaturityTidesObscureForgetfulnessSweet Love Author:Emily Bronte
“It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.” HardLightEarthHeavenHellSweetThousandOppositesForgivingBillionsGentleSarcasmJealousTestamentMercifulOld TestamentMeekDown To EarthResentful Author:Mark Twain
“Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?” ThinkingKnowsFeelsSufferingAsksVirtueSweetJudgmentAdvantageForgivingFaultsProfitCeaseAbandonCarried AwayEnigmaticVenus In Furs Book:Venus in Furs Source: Venus in Furs
“You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." His eyes narrowed. "I did not... Well, I did, But you were-" "Never mind.” MindWellsSaidEyeSituationSweetProtectForgivingHis EyesShut UpHostileForgive MeProtect Yourself Book:City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition Source: City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition