Poets don’t even know when they’re lying. They’re just trying to remember their dreams. They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told.
“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.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”
― La luce sugli oceani
― La luce sugli oceani
“He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“Or I can forgive and forget...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...we always have a choice.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
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