“Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sometimes someone else’s life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own.” — Ali Shaw Life Copy Share Image
“The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.” — Ali Shaw Sunsets Copy Share Image
“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.” — Ali Shaw Language Copy Share Image
“It was just her and Midas in here, tucked away from the world. Here she could turn quietly into glass, with only… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Light didn't conduct truth as once he'd thought. There was nothing you could do to preserve truth. Light was only of use… — Ali Shaw Light Copy Share Image
“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.” — Ali Shaw Think Places Copy Share Image
“As if you could terminate love abruptly because the one you loved signed papers with someone else in a church.” — Ali Shaw Love Copy Share Image
“Carefully, he reached around her with both arms so his fingers locked across her back. 'You have to squeeze,' she whispered, 'or… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one… — Ali Shaw Collision Copy Share Image
“I should take a photo.” “No. Just remember it, and us in it.” He swallowed. She smiled. Here was rightness of place… — Ali Shaw Time Copy Share Image
“He’d been an odd one, that boy with the camera. Such a distinctive physique: pale skin so taut on his skeleton, holding… — Ali Shaw Pale skin Copy Share Image
“His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?' What's that?' Somewhat the opposite of elated.' What's elated again?' Good feelings. That… — Ali Shaw Parenting Copy Share Image
“In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred… — Ali Shaw Love hurts Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then… — Ali Shaw Children Copy Share Image
“He imagined dying and being cut open and there were all his bones and muscles and his bared arteries and capillaries leading… — Ali Shaw Death Copy Share Image
“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… — Ali Shaw Wind blowing Copy Share Image
“Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints… — Ali Shaw Technology Copy Share Image
“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could… — Ali Shaw Darkness Copy Share Image
“Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Today’s gloom was just such an exquisite affair. He reclined in it as other men might in a hot bath. There was… — Ali Shaw Darkness Copy Share Image
“It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his… — Ali Shaw Gaze Copy Share Image
“After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper,… — Ali Shaw Fountain pen Copy Share Image
“A girl sat neatly on a flat rock. Somehow he’d not seen her. She looked like she’d stepped through the screen of… — Ali Shaw Looked Away Copy Share Image
“It had butterfly wings, like flakes of patterned wax. Under the wings it had a hairy body with tiny horns. Its fur… — Ali Shaw Butterfly wings Copy Share Image
“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an… — Ali Shaw Bed sheets Copy Share Image
It didnt take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory. — Ali Shaw Life Copy Share Image
“She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.” — Ali Shaw Business Copy Share Image
“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.” — Ali Shaw Memory Copy Share Image
“I should take a photo.' 'No. Just remember it, and us in it.” — Ali Shaw Photography Copy Share Image
“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.” — Ali Shaw Writing Copy Share Image
“She dwelled for a moment on a memory from girlhood: smearing her tummy with a spiral of glue, then tipping a whole… — Ali Shaw Memory Copy Share Image
“One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will… — Ali Shaw Every second Copy Share Image
“Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
