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I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.

I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  9. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you. – Anna Akhmatova
  25. Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness-¦ As you forgive, you will be forgiven. – Choa Kok Sui
  26. Not every winged Creature is considered a bird or a bat. Some wings are made of magic.- Raani York -“ 2013 – – Raani York
  27. You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things. – Neil Gaiman
  28. Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It’s what made me who I am today. – JulieAnne
  29. God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  30. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
  31. I believe what Jesus said was, ‘I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. – Orson Scott Card
  32. …you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them – either way you have to forgive… – John Geddes
  33. LIVE WELL___Forget them not, yet forgive, forgive..from self-harm, quita new page, right nowyour spirit’s new year’s eve. – Tara Estacaan
  34. I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either. – Patricia A McKillip
  35. You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. – Max Lucado
  36. As’ is the most difficult word in a Christian’s life. We have to forgive ‘as’ we want to be forgiven. – John Kramer
  37. 2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due! – Steve Cioccolanti
  38. Let us remember that we need to forgive to be forgiven. – James E Faust
  39. Many forgiven me for my missteps. I know, I’m BIG mouthed. Thank you for giving me a second chance. Because of you, I also forgive others… – Assegid Habtewold
  40. Forgive all before you go to sleep, you’ll be forgiven before you get up. -“ Lord Krishna. – Vikrmn

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