Melanie No

“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, The Light Between Oceans

“Perhaps none of this existed, for the inches between them seemed to divide two entirely different realities, and they no longer joined.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“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.” He laughed, pretending to wipe sweat from his brow. “I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount. That I did a very proper job of hating, too: very Teutonic! No”—his voice became sober—“we always have a choice. All of us.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans