Christ can forgive you, " he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes." That's grand, " she said. Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face.

Stephen M. Irwin
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The story that this quote comes from is the short story "The Kiss" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story takes place in a mental asylum in which an unnamed woman has been confined after she lost her mind following the death of her husband. The story begins with the unnamed woman being visited by a man who claims to have come from the future. He says he has come back to save her husband, to stop his murder, and prevent her from being murdered.

He tells her about an invention called the "telephone," which he claims she will soon own. The story then goes into the unnamed woman's life, showing that she is indeed insane because she believes everything that the man says to be true. He tells her to forgive others for not helping her when she needed it, but only if they are able to forgive themselves for hurting her in some way, because he believes that all people deserve forgiveness.

While this is happening, however, the unnamed woman falls asleep and has a dream in which she must make a choice between two men named Christ and Michaelangelo. She chooses Christ because he would not kill her while Michaelangelo would. She wakes up in terror because it seems as if he's actually there with her.

She asks him where he came from and why he came back to see her again instead of saving her husband, who was already dead when she met him in the hospital. He tells her that everyone deserves forgiveness and that he came back to let everyone know that forgiveness is possible after death even though it is not possible for him to intervene in time because of his inability to change anything about history. She continues asking him questions throughout their conversation until finally she asks what happens to people who don't get forgiveness when they die or who can't forgive themselves for hurting someone else in some way.

He tells her that they stay in limbo until the end of time when all people are judged on their actions during life and can no longer be judged unless they do something wrong during their lives again. After making this promise, Christ disappears into thin air without saying goodbye or telling his name or what he looks like when he comes back into existence when everyone finally gets their judgment day in his book of history.

Source: The Dead Path

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