"At first I hated the very notion of forgiveness. To tell someone who is in pain to forgive is brutal. Forgiveness can’t be prescriptive."

"My anger broke and tears filled my eyes as I cried the tears that I’d never been able to shed as a child."

"It’s extraordinary to think that the people I harmed the most were the people to judge me the least."

"Forgiveness won’t change the past, but it can change the present, which is where the future starts."

"They wanted him to be punished but I just said, "I'll never ever get justice for Martha because she's dead so why waste two young lives instead of just one"."

"In that instant, I realized how much negative energy it takes to hold hatred inside of you."

"I sense a freedom in trusting the process of life, that justice will find its own course and consequence."

"I choose to forgive her for my own health and happiness and to free myself from mental angst and bondage."