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M.L. Stedman Quote: “Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go.”

101. “Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “As Tom wandered back to Mrs Mewett’s, he thought about the little relics at the lighthouse – Docherty’s knitting, his wife’s jar of humbugs that sat untouched in the pantry. Lives gone, traces left. And he wondered about the despair of the man, destroyed by grief. It didn’t take a war to push you over that edge.”

102. “As Tom wandered back to Mrs Mewett’s, he thought about the little relics at the lighthouse – Docherty’s knitting, his wife’s jar of humbugs that sat untouched in the pantry. Lives gone, traces left. And he wondered about the despair of the man, destroyed by grief. It didn’t take a war to push you over that edge.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Isabel’s belly quickened at the sight of the baby – her arms knew instinctively how to hold the child and calm her, soothe her. As she scooped warm water over the infant, she registered the freshness of her skin, taunt and soft and without a wrinkle.”

103. “Isabel’s belly quickened at the sight of the baby – her arms knew instinctively how to hold the child and calm her, soothe her. As she scooped warm water over the infant, she registered the freshness of her skin, taunt and soft and without a wrinkle.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Who could blame her for wanting the baby to be alive? His Irene still cried sometimes about young Billy, and it had been twenty years since he’d drowned as a tot. They’d had five more kids since then, but it was never far away, the sadness.”

104. “Who could blame her for wanting the baby to be alive? His Irene still cried sometimes about young Billy, and it had been twenty years since he’d drowned as a tot. They’d had five more kids since then, but it was never far away, the sadness.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “I’m all right on my own. And I’m all right with a bit of company. It’s the switching from one to the other that gets me.”

105. “I’m all right on my own. And I’m all right with a bit of company. It’s the switching from one to the other that gets me.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “He had a sense of being waltzed backwards.”

106. “He had a sense of being waltzed backwards.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Only gradually did he notice she was pretty, and more gradually still that she was probably beautiful.”

107. “Only gradually did he notice she was pretty, and more gradually still that she was probably beautiful.”

— M.L. Stedman

$M.L. Stedman Quote: “He was still taking stock of this girl and her uncanny ability to tip him a fraction off balance.”$

108. “He was still taking stock of this girl and her uncanny ability to tip him a fraction off balance.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “He must return to something solid, because if he didn’t, who knew where his mind or soul could blow away to, like a balloon without ballast.”

109. “He must return to something solid, because if he didn’t, who knew where his mind or soul could blow away to, like a balloon without ballast.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Never be sorry for smiling!”

110. “Never be sorry for smiling!”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “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.”

111. “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.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Oh well, God comes good in the end, doesn’t he?”

112. “Oh well, God comes good in the end, doesn’t he?”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “You could still tell at a glance who’d been over there and who’d sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man.”

113. “You could still tell at a glance who’d been over there and who’d sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “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.”

114. “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.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “There was nothing he was going through that the stars had not seen before, somewhere, some time on this earth.”

115. “There was nothing he was going through that the stars had not seen before, somewhere, some time on this earth.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Beside him now on the veranda, Isabel was saying, “even though you hadn’t seen him for years, he was still your dad. You only ever get one of them. It’s bound to affect you, sweetheart.”

116. “Beside him now on the veranda, Isabel was saying, “even though you hadn’t seen him for years, he was still your dad. You only ever get one of them. It’s bound to affect you, sweetheart.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “There’s nothing you can do,” her father had said. “Once a horse bolts, you can only say your prayers and hang on for all you’re worth. Can’t stop an animal that’s caught in a blind terror.”

117. “There’s nothing you can do,” her father had said. “Once a horse bolts, you can only say your prayers and hang on for all you’re worth. Can’t stop an animal that’s caught in a blind terror.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “There had never been guarantee that conception would lead to a live birth, or that birth would lead to a life of any great length. Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making. Look inside the cover of any family Bible and you’d see the facts. The graveyards, too, told the story of the babies whose voices, because of a snakebite or a fever or a fall from a wagon, had finally succumbed to their mothers’ beseeching to “hush, hush, little one.”

118. “There had never been guarantee that conception would lead to a live birth, or that birth would lead to a life of any great length. Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making. Look inside the cover of any family Bible and you’d see the facts. The graveyards, too, told the story of the babies whose voices, because of a snakebite or a fever or a fall from a wagon, had finally succumbed to their mothers’ beseeching to “hush, hush, little one.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn’t for a death.”

119. “No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn’t for a death.”

— M.L. Stedman

M.L. Stedman Quote: “Even Reverend Norkells urged her to spend less time in the stony darkness of the church and to “look for Christ in the life around her.”

120. “Even Reverend Norkells urged her to spend less time in the stony darkness of the church and to “look for Christ in the life around her.”

— M.L. Stedman

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