Stay in the Light Quotes

“Good people did exist, and the best of them never even realised how good they were.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“Fate had dealt Mina two options – passing out drunk or crying into her pillow – and she’d never liked the taste of tears.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“The horrifying scenario that she’d dreaded above all others – that canvas hanging forever in the back room of her mind, painted with a smeared palette of paranoia and hard fact – was now her reality.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“He’d tripped back into nothing, where the darkness absorbed his body in an instant, doomed to die when again he touched solid ground.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“She’d never known anyone like them – so naturally warm and charitable that they made her rethink her take on the human race as a whole. Good people did exist, and the best of them never even realised how good they were.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“The sky was a sombre slate and black as rubbed charcoal where the clouds floated fat with rain over the ocean. Mina hung back a moment to adjust, letting the fresh air fill her nostrils and rise like an icy flood behind her eyes. Never had a dull day seemed so obnoxiously bright.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“Time did more than kill. It had the power to erase people out of existence entirely. The happiness, the sorrow – the highs and lows of a life seen through to its end – all of it had been reduced to this: a pile of dust and bone heaped into the darkest corner.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“There was no lullaby to the black, lightless waters that roiled down that side of the beach. They crashed and they screamed, and they foamed like rabid beasts slashing at the stone, carving out those hidden crannies where the seabirds slept. Their impression was one of gauntness and of death, of sickly hollows and tired, misshapen parts.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“And when the sun shone, the shore resembled some magical seam holding the last fraying threads of her sanity together.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light