25 Quotes by a.b. shepherd

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

Maybe when I’d wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn’t believe that.