Megan Shepherd Quotes & Sayings

Analyzing, always analyzing - I couldn't feel safe until I knew every aspect of what I was facing. — Megan Shepherd

Flesh, blood, bone
the body is only a container for who we truly are inside. — Megan Shepherd

Suddenly he brushed his rough thumb against my jaw, catching me by surprise. Heat erupted across my face as I drew in a sharp breath. Was he going to kiss me? My eyelids sank closed. Our bodies were practically touching. It was wrong to be so close to a boy - every moment of Mother's upbringing had taught me that. But I didn't care. We were bound together, he and I. — Megan Shepherd

Whether I'm right or wrong has nothing to do with gender. — Megan Shepherd

I folded my arm. "You know, I suspect you and Edward would be friends if it weren't for this place."
His eyes were on fire. "It's not this island keeping us from being friends."
My pounding heart stole the words to reply to that. — Megan Shepherd

How do you ignore the voices in your head? The ones that won't let you just be happy. The ones that want more out of life. More like what men are free to do
study what they want, go where they want, BE who they want — Megan Shepherd

I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn't just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I could unhesitatingly chop a rabbit's head off with an ax when a roomful of boys couldn't. Those things were all symptoms of the same sickness - a kind of madness inherited from my father. It was a dangerous pull in my gut drawing me toward the dark possibilities of science, toward the thin line between life and death, toward the animal impulses hidden behind a corset and a smile. — Megan Shepherd

To make the right decision you must understand both paths before you," he said quietly. "You must know your demons before you know whether to follow them. — Megan Shepherd

Sometimes you remind me so much of your father it's frightening. — Megan Shepherd

I am a monster because I have too much of something. — Megan Shepherd

My heartbeat faltered. He pulled away, taking a little piece of my heart with him. — Megan Shepherd

I took a step back toward the stairs but hesitated, recognizing my own boot print in the ash. It was small, like Elizabeth's, and yet the steps were tight and determined, like Henri Moreau's had been.
I wouldn't follow in Father's footsteps anymore.
I wouldn't follow in Elizabeth's, either.
I walked through the ash. The only footsteps I'd make would be my own. — Megan Shepherd

The heel of Montgomery's boot tapped nervously against the floor, as if he knew he was a bad liar. "I can't say how he'll take the news at first. He can be unpredictable, but in the end he'll be glad you came." He leaned forward, blue eyes simmering. His boot tapped faster. "I'm glad you came. — Megan Shepherd

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's. — Megan Shepherd

It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it. — Megan Shepherd

How could a monster love anything but destruction? — Megan Shepherd

We have three rules we require you to follow," the Caretaker continued, oblivious of her fear, "which are for your own benefit and that of your species. The first is to solve the enrichment puzzles. This will strengthen your physical and mental conditioning. The second rule is to maintain your health by eating the food we provide for you, getting ample sleep, and cooperating in routine health assessments. The third rule is to ensure the continuation of your species by engaging in procreative activities. — Megan Shepherd

Do you have any idea of the pain [the animals have] suffered at human hands? — Megan Shepherd

Her cheeks turned a deep shade of peach. A pang of jealousy struck me deep inside, and I flopped into my chair. The others joined me at the table. Didn't Montgomery remember last night, during the storm, running his fingers down the bare skin of my back? I did. I could barely think about anything else. Edward sat across from me, deep in his own thoughts. His hands still bore the scratches from our escape. I wondered if his ribs still hurt him. I absently touched my own, remembering the feel of his hands holding me there, that night behind the waterfall. — Megan Shepherd

I can't say that I mind a little time with you before the world rises. — Megan Shepherd

I ran after him, but he was already back with the others. My footsteps echoed in the hollow space below the dock. I stopped. If he'd wanted me to catch him, he'd have let me. — Megan Shepherd

Hate the part of him that gave in to madness. But don't hate your father, not all of him. There was a time when he loved you very much, and that's what you should remember. — Megan Shepherd

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it. — Megan Shepherd

The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right — Megan Shepherd

They always said crazy people never knew they were crazy. — Megan Shepherd

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen. — Megan Shepherd

Curiosity shivered up my spine. — Megan Shepherd

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old? — Megan Shepherd

He smiled grimly, though there was no glee in it, as though for once he understood how heartbreaking this was for me. 'No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness-it all depends on who's telling the story.' His hand stopped tapping, and that humanity flickered again in his eye. 'You're perfect as you are, my love. — Megan Shepherd

I was afraid that I'd forgotten all the colors of the rainbow, but I know just where I can find them again. — Megan Shepherd

The Beast had been a monster. He'd been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me. — Megan Shepherd

You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse. — Megan Shepherd

Miss Juliet,' he said calmly. 'I can smell you in the wall. Is something wrong/ — Megan Shepherd

Love can sometimes do the impossible. — Megan Shepherd

Love wasn't just a combination of matching physical and personal criteria. It was something you couldn't put into words, just a certainty, a twist of fate, a spark. — Megan Shepherd

Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason. — Megan Shepherd

Voice spoke in my ear, both familiar and terrifying. Don't run, — Megan Shepherd

He pushed my back against the stall door, kissing me. Edward had tried kissing me, but I'd been so shocked I'd barely had time to explore how it felt. Lucy had told me stories of shady corners and sweaty palms. But this was passionate. Wild. Something I'd never known.
"Have you kissed a girl before?" I whispered. He ran his thumb over my cheek. His eyes lingered on my lips.
"Yes," he said. I thought of Alice, her pretty blonde hair, the split lip that made her so vulnerable. But it wasn't her name he said.
"A woman at the docks in Brisbane. She didn't mean anything. I was lonely. It wasn't love." A prostitute, he meant. — Megan Shepherd

He was a survivor, like me — Megan Shepherd

Breath slipped from her. His was the face from her dreams. The most beautiful creature she had ever seen, yet he no longer looked angelic. He was terrifying. — Megan Shepherd

Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending. — Megan Shepherd

Sure enough, the door swung open and his wonderfully ugly face looked back at me. — Megan Shepherd

Beauty had a way of masking something darker. — Megan Shepherd

A scream hurled up my throat, but I never heard it. I'd slipped into a welcoming darkness. — Megan Shepherd

Don't say it," I said, almost a plea. "I love Montgomery." But deep inside, my God, I wanted him to say it. To kiss me feverishly and end this terrible pull between us. — Megan Shepherd

But I couldn't get the image out of my head of the beast strapped to the table, Father humming while the candle wax slowly dripped, and Montgomery assisting. I felt betrayed, as though the boy I'd idolized was nothing more than a fantasy. — Megan Shepherd

Sometimes mistakes are worth making. — Megan Shepherd

He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed. — Megan Shepherd

The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human. — Megan Shepherd

I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know."

"How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox? — Megan Shepherd

Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose nail? He hit it again and again, determined to set that bookshelf straight. Determined to do something right, after so much wrong. — Megan Shepherd

A smile can hide so much. A smile can be a lie. — Megan Shepherd

The last thing the justice system is, is just. — Megan Shepherd

How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose. — Megan Shepherd

Oh, and Juliet," he said. I turned back. Half of his face was thrown in deep shadow, while the whites of his teeth gleamed in the distant lights from the salon. "I'll be working in the laboratory late tonight. I've a good start on the new specimens. Don't be alarmed if you're awoken. The animals - they scream, you know. An unfortunate effect of vivisection. It keeps the whole household up."
For a breath, the world seemed to freeze. And then the clouds rolled again, the wind howled again. I realized that he had charmed me, just like he charmed everyone. I'd thought I was so clever. I thought I could see past his manipulations. But I'd heard only what I wanted to.
He'd never said the accusations were untrue. Just unfair. — Megan Shepherd

We're going to die, aren't we?" I asked bitterly.
He held me so tight I could hardly breathe. But I wanted tighter still. "Not here. I swear it. — Megan Shepherd

Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip. — Megan Shepherd

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity.
Just don't call it madness. — Megan Shepherd

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he'd picked wild flowers like he used to when we'd visit cousins in the country. — Megan Shepherd

For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He'd changed so much from that quiet boy. He'd had to, growing up with monsters as playmates. — Megan Shepherd

No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness- it all depends on who's telling the story. — Megan Shepherd

Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things. — Megan Shepherd