A.B. Shepherd Quotes

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is. I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

Maybe when I'd wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn't believe that.

We were like any other couple at the end of the world.

Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

...The best guess we have, is we are on some kind of space craft. As for why, we don't know anything other than what that alien said – the Earth was destroyed. And we're on a lifeboat." Sarcasm dripped from her lips with the last sentence.

Sometimes careful just isn't good enough.

A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth's future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn't turning out that way, was it?

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn't. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

There was something out there.
And it was getting us.

He took his time looking around for anything interesting to salvage, but found only broken bits of what once was.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don't find under most other circumstances.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

My skin also blue tinted from the cold, and completely spent, I let go allowing the current to do what it longed to do since I'd entered the river.

Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.

He had a smile so warm it could melt a girl's heart, and her knickers, all in one beautiful flash of teeth.

Why was it always easier to say the things in the dark, you couldn't say in the light?

But who is ever fair in an argument?

Never stop dreaming or reading.