M. L. Stedman

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering…

— M. L. Stedman

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do…

— M. L. Stedman

“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…

— M. L. Stedman

“I promised to spend my life with you. I still want to spend my life with you. Izz, I've learned the hard…

— M. L. Stedman

“Izz, I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever…

— M. L. Stedman

“It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every…

— M. L. Stedman

“Sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember”

— M. L. Stedman

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

— M. L. Stedman

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

— M. L. Stedman

“That was the only thing that had got him through the four years of blood and madness: Know exactly where your gun…

— M. L. Stedman

“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…

— M. L. Stedman

“Love's what children do.”

— M. L. Stedman

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

— M. L. Stedman