One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith… Not religion… Nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness… You will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never ever forgive… Think about what you have to lose.

If you are someone who has nothing to lose, then you are already here… And your lesson is a much more difficult one… It is an attempt to find order and justice where there is none… For some things there is no forgiveness…absolutely none. That hard fact is impossible to learn to live with. The event- the split second of time that brought you to this lonely place- cannot be forgiven, not matter how inevitable it was. It took away the future and it ended everything except for this: The emotional inertia of a relationship. That is forever and it is all that you have left. Learn to live with that.

John Bergin, 1993, Introduction for J. O'Barr’s The Crow