The Light Between Oceans by L Stedman

….Knowing that the light will reappear

A powerful closing line to a moving book. What a love story! A story of pain, misdeeds and of redemption.

I struggled with the last third of the book, as the mire became deeper and muddier, for I did not foresee any resolution, any end of pain, any future, any redemption. So tonight since I couldn't sleep I decided to plunge forward, finish the read, even if it depressed me. 

I was surprised by the redemption of forgiving versus resenting, and seeing them be able to successfully find coping and a future in the midst of , or despite their pain and  through their trials. 

It's a hard , emotionally so, read. I'm surprised I did not bail and toss it - which would have been a shame?

Great quotes to ponder, all from the last 20 or so pages

"How can you just get over these things how do you do it ? I choose to he said. I can leave myself to rot in the past spend my time hating people for what happened , or I can forgive and forget. But it's not that easy; but it is so much less exhausting ;and 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.”  

“We always have a choice.”

“ There is no going back. There is no undoing what happened. I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of future you have to give up hope of ever changing your past.”

“ We put things right as well as we can that's all we can do. We have to live with things the way they are now”

“. .... A Droplet of nectar you taste for only a second...”

“ He watches the Ocean surrender to night , knowing that the light will reappear"

Worthy of the time spent reading and pondering its message.