“ It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very,… M.L. Stedman
“ The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or end. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island, to mak… M.L. Stedman
“ We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing. M.L. Stedman
“ I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget.""But it's not that easy."He smiled that Frank smile. "Oh, but my… M.L. Stedman
“ You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it? " "I choose to," he said. "I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened...or I can forgive… M.L. Stedman
“ Other blokes might take advantage, but to Tom, the idea of honor was a kind of antidote to some of the things he'd lived through. M.L. Stedman
“ And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day h… M.L. Stedman
“ Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers' deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother's life like a stain. A… M.L. Stedman
“ Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. M.L. Stedman
“ If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them bac… M.L. Stedman
“ This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination. M.L. Stedman
“ Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right. M.L. Stedman
“ It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. M.L. Stedman
“ Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some. M.L. Stedman
“ I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions. M.L. Stedman
“ Christ--the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right. M.L. Stedman
“ Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it. M.L. Stedman
