Craig Thompson quotes
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“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.”
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“Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.”
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“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".”
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“I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.”
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“I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.”
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“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.”
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“Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.”
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“Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.”
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“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
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“At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.”
-- Craig Thompson
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