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Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so
tangled up that you can’t tell which is which until you’ve shot ’em both, and then it’s too late.”
A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.
He’s hardly going to choke us with
retreat, evasion, camouflage—those are their survival tricks. Others
Only when Isabel Sherbourne was threatened were her defenses awakened.
Under the Criminal Code, you’re not responsible for anything he made you do or stopped you from doing, so you needn’t worry on that score.
Honey-eaters and willy-wagtails chirruped
We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.”
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’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.”
There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory.
