I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it.

"You're absolved," I tell him.

He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.

So I put it in his language. "You're free.

Hannah Moskowitz

Tags: freedom absolution letting-go

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From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.

George Saunders

Tags: happiness death absolution dying

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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.

Frank Sinatra

Tags: love peace superstition resentment absolution decency regression tradeoff

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