M. L. Stedman quotes

Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it. (M. L. Stedman)

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

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When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

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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 it's too late.

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

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

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That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

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

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When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

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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 back and takes another chunk.

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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon. (M. L. Stedman)

Every end is the beginning of something else.

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You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

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It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

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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 changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.

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Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

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M. L. Stedman

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