Craig Thompson Quotes

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

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".

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

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.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

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.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

You're more than a story.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?