71 Quotes by Megan Shepherd

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

The hardest thing to write is a sentence that says as much as a page.

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

She'd loved Mada Vittora once. A twisted, misunderstood love, but even the cruelest forms of love were never lost without heartache.

We fly above the spectral shield that shall never be quite finished, but it's all right. We are our own prism of light now.

And it was true, there were rocks and there was smog, but there was also stars. The city was like life itself: good and bad, pretty and ugly, kindness and cruelty all in one. But most important, it simply was. And that felt like a kind of magic too.

She could feel energy thrumming in the prince’s movements, but it was tightly contained. Everything about him whispered control. Maybe that was the problem, she thought. Too much control made for a rigid heart. Hearts were made to beat steadily, yes, but they were also meant to tremble.

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.