

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library

“The oceans never stop ... the wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island ... Existence here is on the scale of giants. Time is in the millions of years; rocks which from a distance look like dice cast against the shore are boulders hundreds of feet wide, licked round by millennia ...”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans

“We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library

“If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
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