David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

pleasure out of torturing her...I don’t
know if it makes any sense. To me, that’s
even worse than lust or rape, you know?
It’s inhuman. I can understand sexual
desire gone awry. But this is Hitler. This
is horrible. This is the worst.”
It was one thing to forgive in the
abstract. When Candace was killed, they
didn’t know her murderer: he was
someone without a name or a face. But
now they knew.
“How can you forgive somebody like
that?” she went on. “My story was now
much more complicated. I had to fight
my way through all those feelings of oh,
why doesn’t he just die? Why doesn’t
somebody just kill him? That’s not
healthy. It’s revenge. And in some way it