Lifeboat Quotes

“...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

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home.” - Australian Aboriginal Proverb”
― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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