Colleen

“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

“But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans