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LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!! Cried a lot.
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"I choose to," he said. "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."
"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. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the pe ...more
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"I choose to," he said. "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."
"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. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the pe ...more
This story hooks you from the first few pages. The book takes place in Western Australia in the early 1920's. Tom and his new wife live on an island where Tom is a lighthouse keeper. They want a child more than anything - but Isabel has suffered through miscarriages and a stillborn. Miraculously, a baby washed ashore in a boat one day and the couple decide to keep her and raise her as their own. There are consequences of course, and those quickly become apparent. I loved this book. You feel for
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