Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I’m human and stupid, too.

—Justina Chen in Return to Me

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About Justina Chen

Justina Chen (born 1968 in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) is a Taiwanese-American fiction writer and executive communications consultant. She is best known for her young-adult fiction, especially North of Beautiful (2009), A Blind Spot for Boys (2014), Girl Overboard (2008), and Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies) (2006).

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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

—Berton Averre

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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.

—Colleen Hoover in All Your Perfects

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Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.

—Pope Benedict xvi

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Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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