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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.”
― ML Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― 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.”
― ML Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
― William Bliss

“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at ourselves, where we unavoidably find vanity and fault.”
― Eowyn Ivey, To the Bright Edge of the World

“All of my cooking ended with a tangible thing but it was also my silent prayer of love for them.”
― Cheryl Reid, As Good as True

“Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone