Shannon A. Thompson

Quotes

• “I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seem...”
• “The dark, twisting clouds that had settled over Vendona’s streets seemed to open up and glide past the winking moon. The...”
• “I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into...”
• “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 inn...”
• “She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other chi...”
• “Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of ...”
• “With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick building...”
• “Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blin...”
• “His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw inten...”
• “I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, a...”
• “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 ha...”
• “You can't make the world perfect, Daniel," Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand....”
• “I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding i...”
• “Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They k...”
• “Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at sw...”
• “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 ...”
• “A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom,” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded,...”
• “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...”
• “The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I neve...”
• “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 wa...”
• “I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, ...”
• “Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one cou...”
• “Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Je...”
• “...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Er...”
• “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...”
• “Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured...”
• “I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.”
• “Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.”
• “I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)”
• “His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.”
• “I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica”
• “I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.”
• “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.”
• “She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.”
• “Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)”
• “He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.”
• “Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.”
• “I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.”
• “Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”
• “I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)”
• “I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)”
• “I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.”
• “I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)”
• “She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.”
• “I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)”
• “I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.”
• “Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.”
• “Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)”
• “Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.”
• “We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.”