" We all have scars,” he said. “We all do things we regret. Mortallers, even. Capital S sins. Not a one of us will get into any heaven run by a wrathful god. The thing is to understand that we’re human. Not to imagine how we might have done better, but to accept that we are who we are, that we do the things we do, and if we had a chance to do them again, we’d sure enough make the same choices, because we can’t see around the bend. And what good would a life be if we could? What good would a life be without the gifts, or even without the regrets? "

― Meg Waite Clayton , The Wednesday Daughters