“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
“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
“I should take a photo.' 'No. Just remember it, and us in it.” — Ali Shaw Photography 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
“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
“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
“One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then I have seen it countless times. I have… — Ali Shaw Another man 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
“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
“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
“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
“She sometimes wished she possessed the flawed kind of taste that drew girls to arseholes who wanted that one thing alone.” — Ali Shaw 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
“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
“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
“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
