Megan Shepherd > Quotes

“The last thing the justice system is, is just.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“My heartbeat faltered. He pulled away, taking a little piece of my heart with him.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity.
Just don't call it madness.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Analyzing, always analyzing— I couldn’t feel safe until I knew every aspect of what I was facing.”
― Megan Shepherd , The Madman's Daughter

“Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“How could a monster love anything but destruction?”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“I folded my arm. "You know, I suspect you and Edward would be friends if it weren't for this place."

His eyes were on fire. "It's not this island keeping us from being friends."

My pounding heart stole the words to reply to that.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“The Beast had been a monster. He'd been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me.”
― Megan Shepherd, A Cold Legacy

“A trip to the library is like coming home and going on an adventure at the same time.”
― Megan Shepherd

“Love can sometimes do the impossible.”
― Megan Shepherd, A Cold Legacy

“Whether I'm right or wrong has nothing to do with gender.”
― megan shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose nail? He hit it again and again, determined to set that bookshelf straight. Determined to do something right, after so much wrong.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn’t just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I could unhesitatingly chop a rabbit’s head off with an ax when a roomful of boys couldn’t. Those things were all symptoms of the same sickness - a kind of madness inherited from my father. It was a dangerous pull in my gut drawing me toward the dark possibilities of science, toward the thin line between life and death, toward the animal impulses hidden behind a corset and a smile.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“A smile can hide so much. A smile can be a lie.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Cage

“I ran after him, but he was already back with the others. My footsteps echoed in the hollow space below the dock. I stopped. If he'd wanted me to catch him, he'd have let me.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Sometimes mistakes are worth making.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Cage

“You thirst for magic so you can exact revenge. You want to destroy, to tear down. I see it in your eyes."
"And what's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, my dear, as long as you don't mind living in a broken world.”
― Megan Shepherd, Grim Lovelies

“We're going to die, aren't we?" I asked bitterly.
He held me so tight I could hardly breathe. But I wanted tighter still. "Not here. I swear it.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“How do you ignore the voices in your head? The ones that won't let you just be happy. The ones that want more out of life. More like what men are free to do -- study what they want, go where they want, BE who they want”
― Megan Shepherd, A Cold Legacy

“A scream hurled up my throat, but I never heard it. I'd slipped into a welcoming darkness.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“He pushed my back against the stall door, kissing me. Edward had tried kissing me, but I'd been so shocked I'd barely had time to explore how it felt. Lucy had told me stories of shady corners and sweaty palms. But this was passionate. Wild. Something I'd never known.
"Have you kissed a girl before?" I whispered. He ran his thumb over my cheek. His eyes lingered on my lips.
"Yes," he said. I thought of Alice, her pretty blonde hair, the split lip that made her so vulnerable. But it wasn't her name he said.
"A woman at the docks in Brisbane. She didn't mean anything. I was lonely. It wasn't love." A prostitute, he meant.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Sometimes you remind me so much of your father it's frightening.”
― Megan Shepherd, A Cold Legacy

“Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“I am a monster because I have too much of something.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill