Gill Lewis Quotes

The vast blue ocean is waiting for her, and this is only the beginning of her story.

The waves are capped with white horses.

Sometimes the truth stares us in the face, but we just choose not to look.

There was something prehistoric about it, like a beast of a lost world

I sprinkled brown sugar onto my porridge and watched it melt into sickly golden pools.

These are some of the qualities that make for a good company commander. Lewis had them in abundance, plus some special touches that made him a much-loved commander. He had a sense, a feel, for how his family was doing. He knew exactly when to take a break, when to issue a gill, when to push for more, when to encourage, when to inspire, when to tell a joke, when to be tough. He knew how to keep a distance between himself and the men, and just how big it should be. He knew his profession and was proud of it and one of the very best at it. •

I sank my head onto my knees. I was glad of the darkness. I closed the tin lid and pressed it tight. I promised myself I would never open it again. Never. I would never taste it. I would never even try. I was glad of the darkness, because in the darkness, no one can see you cry.

Jill Robinson,

I lay back down and looked up at the rising crescent moon. I could hardly bring myself to think about it, but hope rose up inside me too. I wanted to believe it, for Sook-dii and for me. I wanted to believe there really was a way I could get us both back home again.

We sat together for some time looking across the mountains. When we stood up to leave, I asked her what lay beyond the horizon, and she said to me, ‘That is for us to imagine, to walk toward there holding the dream of what we hope to see, and not turn, however dark the path'.

don’t like getting calls from lawyers. Just hearing Lewis’s name, I shuddered and shrank. And this is in response to my own attorney

Maybe silencing someone’s voice was the most powerful weapon of all. And not speaking up for someone else eventually silenced your own.

You cannot control what others think of the diamond and what they do,’ said Meliah. ‘You can only control your own thoughts and actions.

We’ll come back and visit you, Ma. But the world is big and wide and waiting for us.

And so, we often need to go on an adventure in search of answers.

We are made of stories; they shape us and tell us who we are. But we must honour those who share our story, tell their truth and let their light shine too.

Maybe,’ said Marfaire. ‘Though her jealousy may be justified. It can be hard to see yourself written out if a story you were part of.

You have a lot of these,” he said, examining the rest of her figurines. “They’re Universal movie monsters.” One look at the blank expression on his face told her he didn’t get it. “Classic horror movie monsters, like The Mummy? Wolf Man? Gill-Man? Dracula?” “I saw the Tom Cruise Mummy movie.” “I’m terribly sorry for your loss.

realised that I am a Tree Nazi and the children do it All wrong, so mostly I shout at them for the first ten minutes until they lose interest and bugger off and I can rearrange the baubles they have clearly put in stupid places (i.e., move their handcrafted glitter- and snot-caked monstrosities to the back of the tree, out of sight, so my tasteful glass John Lewis and White Company decorations are front and centre).

Frost-crusted puddles reflected the moonlight and lit up the path. The outline of hills was soft and dark, like waves on a midnight sea,