Apology Quotes - Page 8

• And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Impossible, Harder

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1397, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Bunnies, I Apologize

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.61, Penguin

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• Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

  Rachel Vincent

  Regret, Broken, Lost

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• I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Children, Memories

  Nikki Giovanni, “Quilts”

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• It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." "He might have sent her candy and flowers," Isabelle said. "We don't know." "Isabelle," said Hodge patiently, "this is the man who rained down destruction on Idris the like of which it had never seen,who set shadowhunter against Downworlder and made the streets of the Glass City run with blood." "That's sort of hot," Isabella argued, " that evil thing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Moving, Flower

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry. Are you sure...?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sorry, Three, Four

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• Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

  David Eddings

  Horse, Interesting, Someday

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

  Libba Bray

  Farewell, Men, Gentleman

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press

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• Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

  Ted Chiang

  Children, Tired, Caring

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• Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Forgiving, Needs, Done

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.167, Random House Canada

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• She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Trying, Path, Shifting

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Expectations, Waiting, Shadow

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Science, Technology

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• I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Hurt, Mistake, Choices

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.49, Vintage

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Portions, Rings

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

  Michael Chabon

  Simple, Accepting, I Apologize

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Mort Sahl

  Lying, Differences, Demise

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• Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

  Kristin Cashore

  Father, Fire, Way

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin

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• Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small voice. ”Heck no,” he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. ”No apologies from you,” he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts.

  Patricia Briggs

  Wall, Love You, Hands

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1345, Penguin

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• I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

  Vincent Gallo

  Sorry, Pigs, Roger

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• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

  Patti Smith

  Regret, Sorry, Singers

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• He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Mercy, Circumstances

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.76, Penguin

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, Trying, Friendly

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Mean, Waiting

  "One Day As A Lion And Dr. Dog". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. July 22, 2008.

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