“Well, you just had to count your blessings and be thankful things weren't worse.” — M.L. Stedman Blessings Copy Share Image
“We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.” — M.L. Stedman Bravery Copy Share Image
“The northern side of the island is a sheer granite cliff which sets its jaw stiffly against the ocean below.” — M.L. Stedman Island Copy Share Image
“But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream.” — M.L. Stedman Dreams Copy Share Image
“If Tom is to take his leave of the world, he wants to remember the beauty of it, not just the suffering.” — M.L. Stedman Beauty Copy Share Image
“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.” — M.L. Stedman Child Copy Share Image
“Beside him now on the veranda, Isabel was saying, "even though you hadn't seen him for years, he was still your dad.… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“The man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won,… — M.L. Stedman Memorials Copy Share Image
“He’s lived the life he’s lived. He’s loved the woman he’s loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the… — M.L. Stedman Life Copy Share Image
“They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a… — M.L. Stedman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you… — M.L. Stedman Irony Copy Share Image
“Tom isn't one of the men whose legs trailed by a hank of sinews, or whose guts cascaded from their casing like… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“He traced the constellations as they slid their way across the roof of the world from dusk till dawn. The precision of… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“They tried hard to take comfort from the fact that the boys hadn’t died in vain: they had been part of a… — M.L. Stedman Parenting Copy Share Image
“Or I can forgive and forget...Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large… — M.L. Stedman Full circle Copy Share Image
“Tom tingled at the knowledge that he was the only one to hear any of it: the only living man for the… — M.L. Stedman Gulls Copy Share Image
“The ones ( life-form) to fear the most stay still, unnoticed, their defenses undetected until you trigger them by accident. They make… — M.L. Stedman Fear Copy Share Image
“I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with… — M.L. Stedman Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Tom thought back to the imposing, empty house: to the silence that deadened every room with a subtly different pitch; to the… — M.L. Stedman Death Copy Share Image
“It astounds him that the tiny life of the girl means more to him than all the millennia before it. He struggles… — M.L. Stedman Desire Copy Share Image
“Later, the child climbs down from her mother’s knee and clambers up onto Tom. He holds her wordlessly, trying to imprint everything… — M.L. Stedman Children Copy Share Image
“There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been… — M.L. Stedman End of life Copy Share Image
“He must turn to something solid, because if he didn't, who knew where his mind or his soul could blow away to,… — M.L. Stedman Psychology Copy Share Image
“The old clock on the kitchen wall still clicked its minutes with fussy punctuality. A life had come and gone and nature… — M.L. Stedman Incantation Copy Share Image
“There had never been guarantee that conception would lead to a live birth, or that birth would lead to a life of… — M.L. Stedman Birth Copy Share Image
“Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.” — M.L. Stedman Love Copy Share Image
![“They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that's fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening.” quote by M.L. Stedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ad/m-l-stedman-9230_astronomy_they-the-stars-just-kept-shining-no-matt_536966.png)
