23 Quotes by Ali Shaw

Among the many fox magics her sobo had delighted in describing, the one that had most captured her imagination was the power to alter form. The most eldritch among foxes could turn (or so her grandmother would claim in that musical croak that was her storytelling voice) into human beings. The they would creep into the lives of lonely and impressionable souls and offer them long-sought affection.

It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred chained circles. Picturing Ida like the body in the bog made his heart seem to wilt and blow away. His face screwed through expressions.

She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into another person at such a velocity as to fuse with him.

Wenn du ins Fettnäpfchen getreten bist und dir jemand freundlicherweise die Hand hinstreckt, um dich da wieder rauszuholen, dann solltest du die Hilfe vielleicht annehmen, anstatt dich auch noch drin zu wälzen.

You can’t wait for the world to be perfect before you start living in it.

The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.

I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.

The proposal thus surmounted, it had seemed to him that the hard work was over, and that all that remained was to live out their lives in wedded bliss.