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The law's the law, but people are people. — M.L. Stedman

What your wife's going to say you did or didn't do, if — M.L. Stedman

Love's bigger than rule books. — M.L. Stedman

Never be sorry for smiling! — M.L. Stedman

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 — M.L. Stedman

A goblin thought jumps onto her shouder: what's the point of tomorrow? — M.L. Stedman

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. — M.L. Stedman

Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was — M.L. Stedman

Only gradually did he notice she was pretty, and more gradually still that she was probably beautiful. — M.L. Stedman

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. — M.L. Stedman

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her! — M.L. Stedman

I warn you, though, he's not the happiest corpse in the morgue. Not much of a talker, Neville Whittnish. — M.L. Stedman

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled that you can't tell which is which until you've shot them both, and then it's too late. — M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

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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. — 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

As long as one has good things in the mind, one can be happy. This I know. — M.L. Stedman

cubbies together. She was a bit older, and always had to be — M.L. Stedman

Scars are just another kind of memory. — M.L. Stedman

Talk about brass-monkey weather! — M.L. Stedman

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. — M.L. Stedman

Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it. — M.L. Stedman

Perhaps none of this existed, for the inches between them seemed to divide two entirely different realities, and they no longer joined. — M.L. Stedman

We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes. — M.L. Stedman

Love's what children do. — 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

Sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember — M.L. Stedman

Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream. — M.L. Stedman

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. — M.L. Stedman

I was born to meet you, Izz. I reckon that's what I was put here for, — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

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 — M.L. Stedman

Every end is the beginning of something else. — M.L. Stedman

A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it. — M.L. Stedman

Victorious and dead is a poor sort of victory — M.L. Stedman

Lives gone, traces left. — M.L. Stedman

it, she decided to experiment. — M.L. Stedman

There was nothing he was going through that the stars had not seen before, somewhere, some time on this earth. — M.L. Stedman

All you need is patience and a bit of nous. — M.L. Stedman

No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death. — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

improbable to Tom that such endless space could exist — M.L. Stedman

Isabel sat up, and looked deep into his eyes. 'What goes on in there, I wonder? — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

between words. "It's coming! The baby's coming. — M.L. Stedman

excoriated and burned, mapped and measured and meted — M.L. Stedman

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do. — Stedman Graham

Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some. — M.L. Stedman

But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land. — M.L. Stedman

So many men who had dodged death over there now seemed addicted to its lure. — M.L. Stedman

Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms. — M.L. Stedman

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. p.276 — M.L. Stedman

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. — M.L. Stedman

I'm a lucky guy. No question. — Stedman Graham

If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved. — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone. — M.L. Stedman

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.... — M.L. Stedman

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. — M.L. Stedman

Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did. — M.L. Stedman

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere. — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?" "I choose to, — M.L. Stedman

Always slightly off balance. It was a new sensation for him. — M.L. Stedman

To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it. — M.L. Stedman

Put right the things you can put right today. — M.L. Stedman

Know that you have always been beloved. — M.L. Stedman

He is embraced by nature, which is waiting, ultimately, to receive him, to re-organize his atoms into another shape. — M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

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

You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation. — M.L. Stedman

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making. — M.L. Stedman

When it comes to the ocean, anything's possible, I suppose. Anything at all. — 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

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. — M.L. Stedman

Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past. — M.L. Stedman

the vicar. "Hath this child already — M.L. Stedman

This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination. — M.L. Stedman

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. — M.L. Stedman

He struggles to make sense of it
all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens ... — M.L. Stedman

Needed mothering. Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond — M.L. Stedman

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth ... — M.L. Stedman