"By the time she got back to..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks
By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.
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“That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.”
“Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.”
“Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.”
More on Guilt
“The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.”
“I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!”
“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”
More on Shame
“I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.”
“You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”