The Shark Club Quotes

“Whatever makes you feel alive, you ought to pay attention to it. If it makes you happy, it’s worth following.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“There is always a sadness in me,' I said. 'I don't want it to be there, but it is. It sleeps inside of me, and when it wakes there's nothing I can do about it. It takes over, and when that happens nothing else exists. You did that. For the last seven years I've hated you for it.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“... I experienced his loss like an actual death. One day he existed. The next day he did not.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“There is always a sadness in me,” I said. “I don’t want it to be there, but it is. It sleeps inside of me, and when it wakes there’s nothing I can do about it. It takes over, and when that happens nothing else exists. You did that. For the last seven years I’ve hated you for it.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Margaret was a woman racked with regrets. A woman who could have had everything she ever wanted if she’d been able to forgive.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“the Keats Room: “Love is my religion. I could die for that.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“What I loved was the memory of him, the hope of him. I loved Daniel, but mostly a Daniel I'd created, one that didn't really exist except inside of me.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Daniel was like a wound I carried that wouldn't heal.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“I swam instinctively, not thinking, floating in a half-dreamed place, and what came to me was the quote stenciled on the wall in room 202 of my grandmother’s hotel—the Keats Room: “Love is my religion. I could die for that.” The sea, its creatures, its sharks—they were my religion. I could die for that.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Nicholas wrestled a grocery cart free from the queue and pushed it into the produce section at Publix. “They make really good subs here,” I said.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Assholes that commit crimes against marine life will commit them against people, too.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club