"Scars are just another kind of memory."
- M.L. Stedman
"From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island."
"Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere."
"We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing."
"If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them bac..."
"Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other."
"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, every day."
"You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt"
"You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it? " "I choose to," he said. "I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened...or I can forgive ..."
"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, ..."