Craig Thompson famous quotes

05-13-2025

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
-- Craig Thompson

#Soul #Twenties #Layers
Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
-- Craig Thompson

#Wanting Someone #Wanting You
Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".
-- Craig Thompson

#Lonely #Fall #Space
I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
-- Craig Thompson

#Heaven #World #Misery
You're more than a story.
-- Craig Thompson

#Stories
I love the sea because it is boundless.
-- Craig Thompson

#Sea
Even a mistake is better than nothing.
-- Craig Thompson

#Mistake
On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
-- Craig Thompson

#Kids #Library #Firsts
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
-- Craig Thompson

#Dream #Reality #Giving
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
-- Craig Thompson

#Lips #Grazing #Warmth
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
-- Craig Thompson

#Grateful #Cereal #Infatuation
Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?
-- Craig Thompson

#Temptation #Lust
and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
-- Craig Thompson

#Real #Home #Space
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
-- Craig Thompson

#Shame #Share #Easier
Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
-- Craig Thompson

#School #Church #Awful
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
-- Craig Thompson

#Movement #Maps #Matter
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
-- Craig Thompson

#Stars #Lying #Fall

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