M. L. Stedman Quotes

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• You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
• History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
• Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day,…
• No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...
• You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.
• Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't…
• Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
• It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
• That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness…
• We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
• Every end is the beginning of something else.
• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity…
• The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows…
• The law's the law, but people are people.
• When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.
• Scars are just another kind of memory.
• Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then…
• Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.
• Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes…

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