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

“But hope isn’t founded on certainties. It’s the belief that the bad ending might not happen.”
― 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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Far from subtlety were these men born.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“Ciara was the big sister he never had; kind and sweet-tempered.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“I have heard that name before,’ he said eventually. ‘You have?’ Ben asked, as both he and Chloe leaned in closer to the phone between them. ‘Oh, it must be two years ago now.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“Sparling’s projection had presented Ben with a map scanned in at a slightly crooked angle. His closeted OCD screamed internally.”
― A.M. Shine, The Creeper

“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

“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

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