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  • #1
    A.B. Shepherd
    “My skin also blue tinted from the cold, and completely spent, I let go allowing the current to do what it longed to do since I’d entered the river.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #2
    A.B. Shepherd
    “We were like any other couple at the end of the world.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #3
    A.B. Shepherd
    “Why was it always easier to say the things in the dark, you couldn’t say in the light?”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #4
    A.B. Shepherd
    “On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race, held in the miniscule hands of these newborns.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #5
    A.B. Shepherd
    “Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #6
    A.B. Shepherd
    “There was something out there.
    And it was getting us.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #7
    A.B. Shepherd
    “A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn’t turning out that way, was it?”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #8
    A.B. Shepherd
    “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.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #9
    A.B. Shepherd
    “In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #10
    A.B. Shepherd
    “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.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #11
    A.B. Shepherd
    “...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...”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #12
    A.B. Shepherd
    “I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #13
    A.B. Shepherd
    “What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #14
    A.B. Shepherd
    “...The best guess we have, is we are on some kind of space craft. As for why, we don’t know anything other than what that alien said – the Earth was destroyed. And we’re on a lifeboat.” Sarcasm dripped from her lips with the last sentence.”
    a.b. shepherd

  • #15
    A.B. Shepherd
    “Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #16
    A.B. Shepherd
    “But who is ever fair in an argument?”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #17
    A.B. Shepherd
    “I kept staring at the door as if it held the secret to the universe.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #18
    A.B. Shepherd
    “He had a smile so warm it could melt a girl’s heart, and her knickers, all in one beautiful flash of teeth.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #19
    A.B. Shepherd
    “Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #20
    A.B. Shepherd
    “I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”
    A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

  • #21
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #22
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #23
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #24
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #26
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #28
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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