Shannon A. Thompson Quotes

Every monster could be saved.
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I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.
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Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.
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Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.
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I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.
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When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)
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She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.
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The dark, twisting clouds that had settled over Vendona’s streets seemed to open up and glide past the winking moon. The wind moaned slowly as it died while the trees began dancing with a melody only known to nature. The city became alive, and time raced forward as the sky warmed slightly. It was no longer snowing.
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With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick buildings with bright blue eyes, other times peering for a lingering moment like long lost relatives seeing one another for the first time.
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It’s going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)
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The comfort was peculiarly chilling.
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She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.
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Harmony would only come with destruction.
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I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love everyone around them. Even though they aren’t always happy and can’t always afford the bills, they are still glad to be alive.
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I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?
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I would only blame myself if something happened to you.
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Why do they hate us?" He paused. "We didn't do anything wrong.
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You can't make the world perfect, Daniel," Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand. "No. I can't," I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.
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The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.
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Differences disappear when faced with death.
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No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.
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I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)
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The fantasized kiss was stolen time from the dreams…
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Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.
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I was a person full of wishes but without a star.
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Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
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The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.
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The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.
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Love crosses the sky \ on a peculiar disturbing night.
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I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.
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Damn the way he had control over me.
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She affected me, even when she was absent.
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I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.
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Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.
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Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.
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Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
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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.
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Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.
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Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.
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I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
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Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.
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His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.
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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.
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His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.
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I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)
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The closer he was the less confident I was.
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He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.
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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.
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It was almost painful to be different.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)
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Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.
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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.
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We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.
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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.
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He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.
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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.
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I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.
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