49 Quotes by Shea Ernshaw

Perhaps it’s easier: being alone. Building walls. A solitary life with no one to lose. No one to break your heart.

I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.

Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight.

There’re always reasons to stay,” he says. “You just need to find one reason to leave.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. – Loren Eiseley.

There are legends of mermaids who fall in love with sailors, their devotion granting them a human form. I read about the Irish tales of selkies shedding their sealskins, marrying a human man, and staying on land forever.

I might love him. And it has tilted my universe off center, the frayed edges of my life starting to unravel. Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose.

Love is an enchantress – devious and wild. It sneaks up behind you, soft and gentle and quiet, just before it slits your throat.

She’s not weak, she’s not frail or breakable or scared of much. She is the storm that tears away roofs and knocks over trees.