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“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”

Sadness Sorrow Despair Hopelessness

Author:A.B. Shepherd

“Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.”

Sadness Despair Confusion

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.”

Sin Regret Hesitation

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I’m tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering...”

Loss Death Of A Loved One Loss Of Love Loss Quotes Loss Of Child

Book:Lifeboat

Source: Lifeboat

“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.”

Mother Sadness Longing Motherhood A Child S Love

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?”

Death Violence Regret Murder

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.”

Death Violence Regret Murder

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.”

Comfort Mothers Mothers Love

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”

Reality Confusion Delusion Hallucination

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“Maybe when I’d wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn’t believe that.”

Injury Hallucination

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon

“Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.”

Communication Philosophy Of Life Connecting Connectedness Connecting With People

Book:Lifeboat

Source: Lifeboat

“Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.”

Legend Premonition Eerie Mythical Slavic Peoples

Book:Lifeboat

Source: Lifeboat

“He took his time looking around for anything interesting to salvage, but found only broken bits of what once was.”

Exploration The Past Reminiscing Salvage

Book:The Beacon

Source: The Beacon