Leeann M. Shane > Quotes

“I wasn’t normally unfriendly. Being rude didn’t work for me in life. It wasn’t a quirk or a ruse. I liked being nice, but Bishop Manfield made it almost impossible to be nice. He was so quiet, his silence was too loud. He was short when he did speak and that irked me, especially when I wasn’t being rude to him and he was imposing. A man child. Too tall and too long to sit next to me until we had to move seats again.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“I got this feeling that hockey was my way out. Without it, who would I become? The lack of answers freaked me out the most.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“Being in pain did not give you the right to hurt others.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Tomboy & the Rebel

“sometimes I got so stuck in capturing moments, I’d forgotten what it felt like to actually have one.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Tomboy & the Rebel

“She brushed her dark blonde hair out of her way to shoot a glare my way. It was a true glare, too. Not one of those fake one’s girls give you when they’re trying to be cute and pissed. No, Ava was just plain old pissed instead of her sweet, nice self. I brought that out in her. Cool.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“I had this bad habit of studying people. They weren’t interested in the literal sense, but more in the confused sense. I wasn’t like everyone else. I wanted to study them, not to become them, but maybe to understand myself better.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“Love and hate were the opposite of each other not because they were on the other end of the spectrum, fighting against each other, but because they had once gotten along so well, that the distance after the dust settled turned them into enemies. Love knew all the good parts of hate. Hate knew all the bad parts of love.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Tomboy & the Rebel

“School started a few weeks ago. Hockey had, too. I made the final cut that morning. I was officially on the team. I wasn’t an excitable guy, but I admitted to myself that I was pleased. Pleased to be on the ice again after six long months of practicing and waiting. I missed the lights, the cold of the stadium, the chill cutting through the air.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“you deserve to feel good wherever you are.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Tomboy & the Rebel

“I was a quiet guy. In fact, I detested talking. Mostly because I had nothing to say and most people wanted something or worse, they didn’t want anything at all.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“I loved hockey. Love was another aspect I wasn’t entirely familiar with. I enjoyed hockey more than anything else, so I figured that was love. But what did I know? I’d never been loved or loved anyone else, so I was simply going on emotions.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling

“Why were the hardest things to see usually the things that were right in front of our faces?”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Tomboy & the Rebel

“True, Ava and I had been going to school together since my foster parents had taken me in, which was around 10 or 11, but we’d never really spoken. She was a drama student. I was a hockey player. Our circles weren’t supposed to cross.”
― Leeann M. Shane, The Rarity of Falling