M.L. Stedman Quotes
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M.L. Stedman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He bit the narrow end of the flower and sucked the droplet of nectar from its base. 'You only taste it for a second. But it's worth it.' page 333
Only gradually did he notice she was pretty, and more gradually still that she was probably beautiful.
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.
The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!
I warn you, though, he's not the happiest corpse in the morgue. Not much of a talker, Neville Whittnish.
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the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.
the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.
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.
Perhaps none of this existed, for the inches between them seemed to divide two entirely different realities, and they no longer joined.
We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.
You've had a whole life, a whole story, and I've come in late. I'm only trying to make sense of things. Make sense of you.
I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past. She
There was nothing he was going through that the stars had not seen before, somewhere, some time on this earth.
Then this is how you do it,' and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn't remember any other kiss that felt quite the same.
Our own star! Like the world's been made just for us! With the sunshine and the ocean. We have each other all to ourselves.
Even Reverend Norkells urged her to spend less time in the stony darkness of the church and to "look for Christ in the life around her.
But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land.
Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.
You could still tell at a glance who'd been over there and who'd sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man.
Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.
Oh merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in her....
Izz, I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.
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.
You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.
You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters.
I'm all right on my own. And I'm all right with a bit of company. It's the switching from one to the other that gets me.