Top 54 Megan Shepherd Quotes
#2. Flesh, blood, bone
the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.
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#3. Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.
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#4. Miss Juliet,' he said calmly. 'I can smell you in the wall. Is something wrong/
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#5. It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it.
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#6. I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know."
"How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox?
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#7. For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He'd changed so much from that quiet boy. He'd had to, growing up with monsters as playmates.
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#8. I can't say that I mind a little time with you before the world rises.
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#9. Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.
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#10. A scream hurled up my throat, but I never heard it. I'd slipped into a welcoming darkness.
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#11. Whether I'm right or wrong has nothing to do with gender.
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#12. How do you ignore the voices in your head? The ones that won't let you just be happy. The ones that want more out of life. More like what men are free to do
study what they want, go where they want, BE who they want
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#13. How could a monster love anything but destruction?
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#14. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.
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#16. Breath slipped from her. His was the face from her dreams. The most beautiful creature she had ever seen, yet he no longer looked angelic. He was terrifying.
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#17. The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right
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#18. You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse.
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#19. No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness- it all depends on who's telling the story.
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#20. Love wasn't just a combination of matching physical and personal criteria. It was something you couldn't put into words, just a certainty, a twist of fate, a spark.
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#21. My heartbeat faltered. He pulled away, taking a little piece of my heart with him.
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#23. Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose nail? He hit it again and again, determined to set that bookshelf straight. Determined to do something right, after so much wrong.
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#24. The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.
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#25. The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.
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#26. Sure enough, the door swung open and his wonderfully ugly face looked back at me.
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#27. To make the right decision you must understand both paths before you," he said quietly. "You must know your demons before you know whether to follow them.
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#28. I folded my arm. "You know, I suspect you and Edward would be friends if it weren't for this place."
His eyes were on fire. "It's not this island keeping us from being friends."
My pounding heart stole the words to reply to that.
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#29. Analyzing, always analyzing - I couldn't feel safe until I knew every aspect of what I was facing.
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#30. Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.
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#31. Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.
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#32. Don't say it," I said, almost a plea. "I love Montgomery." But deep inside, my God, I wanted him to say it. To kiss me feverishly and end this terrible pull between us.
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#33. Hate the part of him that gave in to madness. But don't hate your father, not all of him. There was a time when he loved you very much, and that's what you should remember.
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#34. Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?
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#35. We're going to die, aren't we?" I asked bitterly.
He held me so tight I could hardly breathe. But I wanted tighter still. "Not here. I swear it.
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#36. Do you have any idea of the pain [the animals have] suffered at human hands?
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#37. He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed.
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#38. Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.
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#39. I am a monster because I have too much of something.
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#40. Voice spoke in my ear, both familiar and terrifying. Don't run,
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#42. I ran after him, but he was already back with the others. My footsteps echoed in the hollow space below the dock. I stopped. If he'd wanted me to catch him, he'd have let me.
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#43. But I couldn't get the image out of my head of the beast strapped to the table, Father humming while the candle wax slowly dripped, and Montgomery assisting. I felt betrayed, as though the boy I'd idolized was nothing more than a fantasy.
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#45. Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity.
Just don't call it madness.
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#47. I was afraid that I'd forgotten all the colors of the rainbow, but I know just where I can find them again.
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#48. Sometimes you remind me so much of your father it's frightening.
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#49. The heel of Montgomery's boot tapped nervously against the floor, as if he knew he was a bad liar. "I can't say how he'll take the news at first. He can be unpredictable, but in the end he'll be glad you came." He leaned forward, blue eyes simmering. His boot tapped faster. "I'm glad you came.
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#51. Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.
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#52. I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he'd picked wild flowers like he used to when we'd visit cousins in the country.
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#53. The Beast had been a monster. He'd been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me.
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#54. They always said crazy people never knew they were crazy.
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