"The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind."

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Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Islands Quotes #Light Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.”
“The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.”
“It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.”
“There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.”
“It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.”
“There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.”
“We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.”

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