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" Marya sighed as if she were blowing out a candle. “I may say that I do; I can even wish to, but forgiveness is a feeling much as love is. It is mysterious and difficult to conjure on command. All I’m willing to promise is that we shall at least be cordial to one another, because I still like you, Tom, and I want you to be a father to Olivet—” “As do I!” “But forgiveness…” She shook her head. “That will take time. Perhaps a little; perhaps more than we have. "

, The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)


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 quote : Marya sighed as if she were blowing out a candle. “I may say that I do; I can even wish to, but forgiveness is a feeling much as love is. It is mysterious and difficult to conjure on command. All I’m willing to promise is that we shall at least be cordial to one another, because I still like you, Tom, and I want you to be a father to Olivet—” “As do I!” “But forgiveness…” She shook her head. “That will take time. Perhaps a little; perhaps more than we have.