"The Light Between Oceans" Quotes
A lighthouse keeper and his wife make a fateful decision when a boat washes ashore with a dead man and a living baby.
fiction | 362 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon.
But sometimes it feels like the world is so big and I’m so small. And then I worry about things. I can’t help it.
It’s all very well for you to stand there being all noble, but you’re not the one who’s got a dead baby, are you?
I never thought of myself as a man who would commit murder, but the fact is that when you do something as a result of passion, it’s easier than when you have to plan it out first.
I can live without anyone, but I can’t live without you.
It’s a terrible thing to live with guilt, and it’s a terrible thing to die with it.
Not all of us get to be what we want to be.
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable.
The place is so big it doesn’t know it’s a place at all.
