“Damn the way he had control over me.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“She affected me, even when she was absent.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I 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
“Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“When 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
“His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I don’t believe that,” I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. “I never asked you to.” (Jessica)”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“The closer he was the less confident I was.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“He’s been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn’t so cruel.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I 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
“It was almost painful to be different.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I 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
“His 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
“Luthicer hummed. “You’re either brave or very foolish.” “What’s the difference?” (Eric)”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric)”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“War makes animals of men, and we can’t let that happen to us. If we do, we won’t have any chance of survival.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.”
— Shannon A. Thompson
“I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn’t regret any of it.”
— Shannon A. Thompson