A Far-Flung Life Quotes

“We think we know who we are: that each day will wake up more or less the same person. But just as rocks are weathered, we are perpetually formed and changed by time and experience until we leave this world with not a single cell we came with.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“In the end, we’re all looking for a place to ride out the storm of life.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“When you think about it, everyone's life's a prison - of days, sort of. The trick is to get comfortable in it, I reckon. Find your freedom inside whatever your prison is.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“It’s funny,” Lorna would say. “You feed them the same. You love them the same. But every child’s its own country.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“There is a time when anything is possible: a time when we could be whoever we dream of being. Then life gets in the way”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Then she prays for the strength not to miss the blessings life may bring,”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“leave this world with not a single cell we came in with. As the ribbon of our life uncoils, the person who goes to sleep is imperceptibly different from the one who wakes up. Sometimes, instead of the gradual metamorphosis, a single event changes a life completely, and when it does, it changes everyone who has ever loved them.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“You feed them the same. You love them the same. But every child’s its own country.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Age creeps up on you a day at a time; sits so quietly on your shoulder that you hardly feel it getting heavier.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Everything that can do you good can also do you harm here—that’s just the way of it.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“From here you can just make out the scar that appeared one day in 1947 when the earth got restless and shrugged, creating a three-foot ridge for twenty miles across the property. It's a reminder that solid ground, unchanged for millions of years, can rearrange itself without warning or permission. You just have to live with the new terrain. Repair what roads and fences you can. Start from scratch for the rest
of it.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“The thing about truth is that it will always wait.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“But how do you get over it? The ... stuff that happened?" Peachey rose to feed the fire another few bits of branch, and poked the red coals until flames licked the dry bark. "You don't. It's part of you.
Never goes away... But if you're lucky, it loses its hold over you..."He turned, took in the boy. "Matt, you go on because the world's interest-ing, and the ticket out of here's one-way. Living is your one chance of revenge on life.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“There is a time when anything is possible: a time when we could be whoever we dream of being. Then life gets in the way, and our existence shrinks to a single moment. So the man who cracks his head on the corner of the bar in a stoush, whose brains and life leak out there and then, well, gradually he's boiled down to “Jimmy who died in that brawl.” People use hindsight to map the road to his demise, bestowing retrospective significance on points along the way. Just as Jesus was always going to die on the cross, they prune and shape their memory of a fellow's life so that it always led up to this inevitable event.
The same goes for Burt, the one who punched Jimmy so hard his head cracked against the bar. Burt who spent the next ten years in prison; who, until the second before the fight, was a “decent sort.” But after... he's only ever “Burt who killed that bloke,” because of this one moment into which, it turns out, every day of his life was being funneled all along.
There are some events you cant come back from. some gates close off every other path you could possibly take. A single moment in your past denies you a future: condemning you to a death in life.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“Age creeps up on you a day at a time; sits so quietly on your shoulder that you hardly feel it getting heavier. Things change slowly. You get used to the shape your life has taken”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Generation after generation”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Like they say, ‘There’s nothing as beautiful as a woman who is loved.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“When you think about it, everyone’s life’s a prison—of days, sort of. The trick is to get comfortable in it, I reckon. Find your freedom inside whatever your prison is.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Keep a place in your heart for things that are beautiful,” Pete would say to her. “Beauty’ll help you get through dark times.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“In my book, if you’ve got responsibilities, you may as well shoulder them willingly. Some things, the more you run from them, the harder they hunt you down.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“oblivious”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life