M. L. Stedman
:: The Light Between Oceans
'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.'
'... don't get confused between a thing itself and the first time you come across it.'
Tom rarely thought of the house in terms of rooms either. It was just 'home'.
'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.'
Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream.
'... I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.'
... he knows that 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.