I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin