Stood Aghast Quote by Ali Shaw

“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

“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