Catherynne M. Valente Quote

Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of, the endless maze and t...

..."SORRY."...Just doesn't cut it anymore!

By the time most people say 'I'm sorry' it is already too late.

What are you doing? Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcub...

Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts,...

I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done. (..........and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)