“It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his… — Ali Shaw Long time 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
“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
“The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.” — Ali Shaw Sunsets 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
“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
“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
“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.” — Ali Shaw 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
“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
“the sky was something she’d so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.” — Ali Shaw Writing 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“The first time she'd lured her ex to a restaurant it had been all she could do to snap him out of… — Ali Shaw First time Copy Share Image
“Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull.” — Ali Shaw 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
“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.” — Ali Shaw 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
“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 Copy Share Image
