“But how? How can you just get over these things, darling?...You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?' 'I choose to...I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share
“It is so much less exhausting. 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 would have to make a list,… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share
“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“But how? How can you just get over these things, darling?...You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?' 'I choose to...I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget.' 'But it's not that easy.' He smiled… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share
“I promised to spend my life with you. I still want to spend my life with you. Izz, I've learned the hard way that… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Izz, 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… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“It is so much less exhausting. 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 would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ...… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share
“Sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember” — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past. — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“That was the only thing that had got him through the four years of blood and madness: Know exactly where your gun is when… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Fella upstairs's given you a second chance, so I reckon he's not too fussed about whatever you did or didn't do back then. Stick… — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
