The Shadow Girl Quotes

“We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“In the dead hour the ghosts creep out of the bush and go howling across the dunes, screaming their unfinished business to the night. But I'm nothing to them so they ignore me.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Despite the post-it note with her phone number on it, shes already little more than a fading memory. They all are.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Fortunately...or unfortunately...through years of neglect I'm actually as skinny as an anorexic broomstick.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Where do you even start with Cinderella? Let's ignore Cinderella's victim status and total lack of self-determination and head straight for the prince who was, let's face it, a bit of a jerk. Despite being captivated by Cinderella's radiant beauty for half the night, come the cold light of day he has completely forgotten what she looks like and only has her shoe size to go on. Either he was suffering from some sort of early onset Alzheimer's disease or else he was completely off his face during the big ball. the end result is that he goes trawling through the kingdom in some sort of perverted foot-fetish style quest for someone, anyone, who fits the glass slipper. Just how superficial is this guy? What if Cinderella had turned up at the ball looking exactly like she did only with a mole on her face and that had a couple of twelve-centimetre hairs sticking out of it? What if a bearded troll just happened to have the same shoe size as Cinderella? 'Ah, well. Pucker up, bushy cheeks, it's snog time.' And no one ever bothers to question the sheer impracticality of Cinderella's footwear. Glass might be good for many things but it's not exactly malleable in its cooled state. If everyone turned and gaped when Cinderella made her big entrance into the ball, it's only because she'd have come staggering in like a drunken giraffe on rollerblades. Bit of a head turner.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“The touch of being part of something greater. Something magnificent. That it's not just me against the world.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“There is no fate. Whatever I do from this point on is down to me. I choose my own path. Write my own story.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Step lightly upon the earth, but leave a little ray of hope.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“People are basically good.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“I'm alive. I'm safe. And life's a gift. Okay the gift sucks a bit at the moment, sort of like getting a pair of oversized pyjamas for Christmas when what you really wanted was an iPod, but I need to make every moment count.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl

“Death comes to all of us in the end.”
― John Larkin, The Shadow Girl