A.M. Shine > Quotes

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“But hope isn’t founded on certainties. It’s the belief that the bad ending might not happen.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“memories become hauntings over time,”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Such fears, she whispered to herself, were irrational. But one of the many lessons that the forest had taught her was that her fears don’t care.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Was this how it must feel to die and return as a ghost? To see how the world moved on without you, only to find that it never even realised you were gone.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Was surviving enough without knowing what was trying to kill you? Maybe that’s just life.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Even when wearing the mask of man, still they are monsters to the eye.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“The best storytellers worked the shadows when they spoke. And the night was never so dark than when they let that silence linger, inviting all ears to lean in that bit closer.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“There will always be those out there who just want to fuck with people.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“Good people did exist, and the best of them never even realised how good they were.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“Without the warmth of the sun or the sound of birdsong it never seemed like morning, just a lighter shade of night.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Wherever their adventure was taking them, it was a dead place that even the animals knew to avoid.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret. It doesn’t need tears to make its presence felt”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Mina despised the coop’s mirrored glass, not because of what it hid, but for what it revealed.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret. It doesn’t need tears to make its presence felt,”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“like dim fractures in the ceiling of their prison. She could feel the darkness growing around them, creeping out from the lowest leaf and spreading under boughs like black fungus.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“People always assume children to be forgetful. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“Fate had dealt Mina two options – passing out drunk or crying into her pillow – and she’d never liked the taste of tears.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“You never pick up all the pieces when you shatter like that.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“No memories worth keeping were made there, and the future’s horizon was lost to the trees.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Could they not dim it a little? Did it have to be so painfully bright, and so loud? It was like a hive of bees picking through the honeycomb of her brain. She couldn’t think straight.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Her car was met on all sides by an impenetrable blackness, as though she had sunk to the ocean’s deepest trench, where old things live without time or light, in secrecy and in darkness.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“She’d never known anyone like them – so naturally warm and charitable that they made her rethink her take on the human race as a whole. Good people did exist, and the best of them never even realised how good they were.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“He’d tripped back into nothing, where the darkness absorbed his body in an instant, doomed to die when again he touched solid ground.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“If only he’d taken action that day when he’d heard the man’s cries. It was easier to ignore him. It’s always been easier to do nothing.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“John had journeyed on foot as far as he could, always returning to the coop before lights on, to Ciara’s side.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“It was easy to condemn when the judges outnumbered the accused.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“hope isn't founded on certainties”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“John had never broken a promise to his wife before. And at that moment in time, he thought he never would.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers