Judith Viorst Quote

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2010) - ISBN: 9781439134863

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have...

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have...

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have...

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have...