55 Quotes by M.L. Stedman

The law's the law, but people are people.

Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.

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 that Frank smile. "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 to keep remembering all the bad things...

This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.

The man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory.

No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death.

Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. “Victorious and dead,” some muttered, “is a poor sort of victory.