A.B. Shepherd

Quotes

• “...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out o...”
• “She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled ...”
• “Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life....”
• “The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my...”
• “Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes fil...”
• “In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off ...”
• “I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and th...”
• “I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”
• “I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.”
• “I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.”
• “Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.”
• “What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?”
• “Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.”
• “Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.”
• “But who is ever fair in an argument?”
• “Never stop dreaming or reading.”