M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans Quotes
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.
Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.
Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.
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.
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.
Christ--the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.
Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.
What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.
The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!
You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.
Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.
From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.