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1. "Then this is how you do it,' and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn't remember any other kiss that felt quite the same." ~ M.L Stedman
2. "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." - as Frank Roennfeldt" ~ M.L. Stedman
3. "Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some." ~ M.L. Stedman
4. "Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream." ~ M.L. Stedman
5. "here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and the lantern turning. Always turning. Always looking over its shoulder" ~ M.L. Stedman
6. "It astounds him that the tiny life of the girl means more to him than all the millennia before it. He struggles to make sense of his emotions – how he can feel both tenderness and unease when she kisses him goodnight, or presents a grazed knee for him to kiss better with the magic power that only a parent has.For Isabel, too, he is torn between the desire he feels for her, the love, and the sense that he cannot breathe. The two sensations grate at one another, unresolved." ~ M.L. Stedman
7. "Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it." ~ M.L. Stedman
8. "Tom isn't one of the men whose legs trailed by a hank of sinews, or whose guts cascaded from their casing like slithering eels. Nor were his lungs turned to glue or his brains to stodge by the gas. But he's scarred all the same having to live in the same skin as the man who did the things that needed to be done back then. He carries that other shadow, which is cast inward." ~ M.L. Stedman
9. "It's like a whole … a whole galaxy waiting for you to find out about. And I want to find out about yours." ~ M.L. Stedman
10. "Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She has no word for longing or despair." ~ M.L. Stedman
11. "Always slightly off balance. It was a new sensation for him." ~ M.L. Stedman
12. "Isabel herself could hardly have put into words the new feeling – excitement, perhaps – she felt every time she saw this man. There was something mysterious about him – as though, behind his smile, he was still far away. She wanted to get to the heart of him.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 back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did." ~ M.L. Stedman
13. "Isabel was squeezing the girl to her, sobbing at the touch of her, the legs fitting snugly around her waist and the head slotting automatically into the space beneath her chin, like the final piece of a jigsaw. She was oblivious to anything and anyone else....The woman and child were knitted together like a single being, in a world no one could enter." ~ M.L. Stedman
14. "Know that you have always been beloved." ~ M.L. Stedman
15. "He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens..." ~ M.L. Stedman
16. "There are still more days to travel in this life. And 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....Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone." ~ M.L. Stedman
17. "Izz, 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." ~ M.L. Stedman
18. "History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent." ~ M.L. Stedman
19. "You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation." ~ M.L. Stedman
20. "Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did." ~ M.L. Stedman
21. "No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth..." ~ M.L. Stedman
22. "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." ~ M.L. Stedman
23. "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." ~ M.L. Stedman
24. "The oceans never stop ... the wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island ... Existence here is on the scale of giants. Time is in the millions of years; rocks which from a distance look like dice cast against the shore are boulders hundreds of feet wide, licked round by millennia ..." ~ M.L. Stedman
25. "It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell—the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him." ~ M.L. Stedman
26. "We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes." ~ M.L. Stedman
27. "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, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us." (p. 323)" ~ M.L. Stedman
28. "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..." ~ M.L. Stedman
29. "Our own star! Like the world's been made just for us! With the sunshine and the ocean. We have each other all to ourselves." ~ M.L. Stedman
30. "Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers' deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother's life like a stain. As a fourteen-year-old, Isabel had searched the dictionary. She knew that if a wife lost a husband, there was a whole new word to describe who she was: she was now a widow. A husband became a widower. But if a parent loss a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter. That seemed odd. As to her own status, she wondered whether she was still technically a sister, now that her adored brothers had died." ~ M.L. Stedman
31. "You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day." ~ M.L. Stedman
32. "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 back." ~ M.L. Stedman
33. "Scars are just another kind of memory." ~ M.L. Stedman
34. "They tried hard to take comfort from the fact that the boys hadn't died in vain: they had been part of a magnificent struggle for right. And there were moments where they could believe that and swallow down the angry, desperate screech that wanted to scrape its way out of their gullets like out of a mother bird." ~ M.L. Stedman
35. "Talk about brass-monkey weather!" ~ M.L. Stedman
36. "I warn you, though, he's not the happiest corpse in the morgue. Not much of a talker, Neville Whittnish." ~ M.L. Stedman
37. "All you need is patience and a bit of nous." ~ M.L. Stedman
38. "It's a hard job, and a busy one. The lightkeepers have no union, not like the men on the store boats – no one strikes for better pay or conditions. The days can leave him exhausted or sore, worried by the look of a storm front coming in at a gallop, or frustrated by the way hailstones crush the vegetable patch. But if he doesn't think about it too hard, he knows who he is and what he's for. He just has to keep the light burning. Nothing more." ~ M.L. Stedman
39. "Isabel sat up, and looked deep into his eyes. ‘What goes on in there, I wonder?" ~ M.L. Stedman
40. "Ralph spoke to the boat in the same way Whittnish referred to the light – living creatures, close to their hearts. The things a man could love, Tom thought. He fixed his eyes on the tower. Life would have changed utterly when he saw it again. He had a sudden pang: would Isabel love Janus as much as he did? Would she understand his world?" ~ M.L. Stedman
41. "But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land." ~ M.L. Stedman
42. "The old clock on the kitchen wall still clicked its minutes with fussy punctuality. A life had come and gone and nature had not paused a second for it. The machine of time and space grinds on, and people are fed through it like grist through the mill. Isabel had managed to sit up a little against the wall, and she sobbed at the sight of the diminutive form, which she had dared to imagine as bigger, as stronger – as a child of this world. ‘My baby my baby my baby my baby,' she whispered like a magic incantation that might resuscitate him. The face of the creature was solemn, a monk in deep prayer, eyes closed, mouth sealed shut: already back in that world from which he had apparently been reluctant to stray. Still the officious hands of the clock tutted their way around. Half an hour had passed and Isabel had said nothing." ~ M.L. Stedman
43. "As Tom walked away, every step more awful, Lucy pursued him, arms still outstretched. ‘Dadda, wait for Lulu,' she begged, wounded and confused. When she tripped and fell face down on the gravel, letting out a scream, Tom could not go on, and spun around, breaking free of the policeman's grip.‘Lulu!' He scooped her up and kissed her scratched chin. ‘Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy,' he murmured, his lips brushing her cheek. ‘You're all right, little one. You'll be all right.'Vernon Knuckey looked at the ground and cleared his throat. Tom said, ‘Sweetheart, I have to go away now. I hope—' He stopped. He looked into her eyes and he stroked her hair, finally kissing her. ‘Goodbye, littlie." ~ M.L. Stedman
44. "It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilisation." ~ M.L. Stedman
45. "Even though everything in the past twenty-four hours had been leading to this, even though it was a fear Isabel had harboured from the day she had first laid eyes on Lucy as a baby, still, the moment ripped through her.'Please!' she pleaded through tears. ‘Have some pity!' Her voice reverberated around the bare walls. ‘Don't take my baby away!'As the girl was wrenched from her screaming, Isabel fainted onto the stone floor with a resounding crack." ~ M.L. Stedman
46. "Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making." ~ M.L. Stedman
47. "That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame." ~ M.L. Stedman

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