“What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.”
Helen Maryles Shankman“There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.”
Helen Maryles Shankman“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What wedo with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”
Helen Maryles Shankman, The Color of Light“You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood. --Raphael Sinclair”
Helen Maryles Shankman, The Color of Light“Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.”
Helen Maryles Shankman, The Color of Light“What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.”
Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories“If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.”
Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories“You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.”
Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories