The Watchers Quotes

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“But hope isn’t founded on certainties. It’s the belief that the bad ending might not happen.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“memories become hauntings over time,”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Such fears, she whispered to herself, were irrational. But one of the many lessons that the forest had taught her was that her fears don’t care.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Even when wearing the mask of man, still they are monsters to the eye.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Was surviving enough without knowing what was trying to kill you? Maybe that’s just life.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Was this how it must feel to die and return as a ghost? To see how the world moved on without you, only to find that it never even realised you were gone.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“You never pick up all the pieces when you shatter like that.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Could they not dim it a little? Did it have to be so painfully bright, and so loud? It was like a hive of bees picking through the honeycomb of her brain. She couldn’t think straight.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Mina despised the coop’s mirrored glass, not because of what it hid, but for what it revealed.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“No memories worth keeping were made there, and the future’s horizon was lost to the trees.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Without the warmth of the sun or the sound of birdsong it never seemed like morning, just a lighter shade of night.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Her car was met on all sides by an impenetrable blackness, as though she had sunk to the ocean’s deepest trench, where old things live without time or light, in secrecy and in darkness.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret. It doesn’t need tears to make its presence felt,”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Wherever their adventure was taking them, it was a dead place that even the animals knew to avoid.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“like dim fractures in the ceiling of their prison. She could feel the darkness growing around them, creeping out from the lowest leaf and spreading under boughs like black fungus.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Suppressing a smile isn’t easy. The happiness always creeps out somehow. But sadness can be stashed under the skin like a dark secret. It doesn’t need tears to make its presence felt”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“Ciara was the big sister he never had; kind and sweet-tempered.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“John had journeyed on foot as far as he could, always returning to the coop before lights on, to Ciara’s side.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“John had never broken a promise to his wife before. And at that moment in time, he thought he never would.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“hope isn't founded on certainties”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“If you could only see how many of them are out there, behind the glass, watching us,’ Madeline replied. ‘How could I ever be lonely here?”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“with the photograph of his wife held in both hands.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“It was a ritual of hers to search the area of the woods where she believed John had been taken. Truth was that there was no knowing where the man had died. His cries had come from everywhere.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers

“She could feel the darkness growing around them, creeping out from the lowest leaf and spreading under boughs like black fungus.”
― A.M. Shine, The Watchers