M.L. Stedman

Quotes

• “The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or end. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gath...”
• “He was a practical man: give him a sensitive technical instrument, and he could maintain it; something broken, and he co...”
• “If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Li...”
• “What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads...”
• “From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that mig...”
• “Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a nee...”
• “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 an...”
• “Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, ...”
• “I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not alw...”
• “You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad ...”
• “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. ...”
• “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,...”
• “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...”
• “Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the oth...”
• “It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”
• “This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.”
• “Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.”
• “Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”
• “That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”
• “Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.”