Dust particles panicked and swarmed in the light.

“It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his hand in…

— Ali Shaw

“She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.”

— Ali Shaw

“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed…

— Ali Shaw

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

— Ali Shaw

“Sometimes I just can't stop thinking enough to turn off.”

— Ali Shaw

“It had butterfly wings, like flakes of patterned wax. Under the wings it had a hairy body with tiny horns. Its fur looked very…

— Ali Shaw

“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.”

— Ali Shaw

“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into…

— Ali Shaw

“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.”

— Ali Shaw

“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an object, a…

— Ali Shaw

“He said human beings were like a wind blowing. He said that sometimes we're loud and sometimes we're a whisper, sometimes we're warm and…

— Ali Shaw

“the sky was something she’d so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her…

— Ali Shaw

“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”

— Ali Shaw

It didnt take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

— Ali Shaw

“She dwelled for a moment on a memory from girlhood: smearing her tummy with a spiral of glue, then tipping a whole pot of…

— Ali Shaw