The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

by M.L. Stedman

If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.

“You’re my other half of the sky,” he said.

Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever’s in charge of it.”

A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.

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.”