The Lighthouse Quotes

“Remembering the fatherless feeling, the longing to be picked up and tossed into the air and caught with a laugh, and carried on a shoulder ride as his father-protector strode fearless through the world.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, The Lighthouse: A Novel

“Then came a final wave of his hand, his red wind-breaker like a splash of paint on the kingfisher blue and the dome of cerulean above it, almost a quaint folk painting, the forms containing all that was essential, man suspended above the abyss, the water and sky elegant, the points of color making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as a work of art should do. As”
― Michael D. O'Brien, The Lighthouse: A Novel

“for instinctively he knew that any abiding love would have a cost.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, The Lighthouse: A Novel

“As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,”
― Michael D. O'Brien, The Lighthouse: A Novel