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. That I did a very proper job of hating too.
M.L. StedmanBeing over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.
M.L. StedmanHumans 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. StedmanPerhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.
M.L. StedmanThen he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.
M.L. StedmanTags: moving-on
The law's the law, but people are people.
M.L. StedmanTags: being-human
No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...
M.L. StedmanThe 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. StedmanKnow that you have always been beloved.
M.L. StedmanIt is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
M.L. StedmanTags: civilization luxury
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