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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.