01UndatedI leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father’s hand. "What’s this?" he asked, raising a brow. "You’ll need it to sign my death certificate," I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. "Are we done now?” (Eric)Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
02UndatedHis resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica)Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
03UndatedLuthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
05UndatedI couldn’t help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again, more people could be dead.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
06UndatedHe's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
08UndatedI don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
09UndatedWhen I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
10UndatedHis entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
11UndatedHis hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
12UndatedInstead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
13UndatedI live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
16UndatedI saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
17UndatedSometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
18UndatedUntil they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
19UndatedWatching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗
23UndatedI knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.Shannon A. Thompson / quote ↗