You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told. So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person. - Orson Scott Card

What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.