Iain S. Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Draw every bad word you've ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain. — Iain S. Thomas

I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it. They may think they get it, but they don't. This is the sign you've been looking for. You were meant to read these words. — Iain S. Thomas

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn't apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn't say sorry for falling. Feelings just are — Iain S. Thomas

Sometimes I have a weird dream that we're all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire. — Iain S. Thomas

Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be. — Iain S. Thomas

you weren't mine to begin with. — Iain S. Thomas

When it rains, the river will try and and take you away from me.
Which is why, when it rains, we must hold onto each other, just a little tighter. — Iain S. Thomas

A man becomes his thoughts and these are now yours. — Iain S. Thomas

You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and say, 'This is not who I am. This is not what I want. I'm sorry, but you've mistaken me for somebody else. — Iain S. Thomas

She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me — Iain S. Thomas

This is my skin. It keeps out the rain and words I'd rather not hear like "I'm tired" or "I'm fine" or "We need to talk."
This is my skin and it's thick. This is not your skin. Yet you are still under it. — Iain S. Thomas

Let someone love you just the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room. — Iain S. Thomas

This is why it hurts the way it hurts.
You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.
You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much — Iain S. Thomas

Does it hurt? What is it?"
"It's not food poisoning, it's not a hazard to public health."
"What is it?"
"It's just an ache you've given me. I'll live. But only with you. — Iain S. Thomas

Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear, I said, to no one in particular. — Iain S. Thomas

There was a research article I read with the headline, "Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains," because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists — Iain S. Thomas

You cannot kill me here. Bring your soldiers, your death, your disease, your collapsed economy because it doesn't matter, I have nothing left to lose and you cannot kill me here. Bring the tears of orphans and the wails of a mother's loss, bring your God damn air force and Jesus on a cross, bring your hate and bitterness and long working hours, bring your empty wallets and love long since gone but you cannot kill me here. Bring your sneers, your snide remarks and friendships never felt, your letters never sent, your kisses never kissed, cigarettes smoked to the bone and cancer killing fears but you cannot kill me here. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. Because you cannot kill me here. — Iain S. Thomas

What's this?"
"It's a napkin used by the saddest girl in the world to dry her tears."
"Let me guess. Sylvia Plath?"
"No, no one famous. But we knew about her. She gave off so much resonance, it turned our entire map black for one city block."
"And she was no one special?"
"You wouldn't recognise her name if I told it to you."
"So just an everyday, normal person carrying their shopping, reading books at night and going for drinks occasionally with her friends, just some person, that's the saddest girl in the world?"
"Yes. Just a regular person. — Iain S. Thomas

I hope you love whenever you're given the chance to love. — Iain S. Thomas

If you really want to know, I just hope I die before I get boring. — Iain S. Thomas

The feeling you get when you think of something amazing and then forget it and know that it felt amazing but you cant remember the details. Then, minutes later, you remember it again and you're so grateful because you nearly lost something, forever. Except, this time, its a person. Not an idea. — Iain S. Thomas

It's not the things you don't want that drag you under. It's the things you think you want.
Those, are the killers. — Iain S. Thomas

Somewhere across the interstate
Exposure to the drug trade of emotions
And the tsunami and typhoon of feelings
Has made us all cops and robbers
Of what we keep in the cavities
In our chests — Iain S. Thomas

Your nerve endings
I know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms — Iain S. Thomas

History is a series of difficult choices. The only reason there's anything left of the human race, the only reason we're still here is because men like me made those difficult choices — Iain S. Thomas

That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.
That you control that completely.
That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.
That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.
That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else — Iain S. Thomas

Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would've changed lives — Iain S. Thomas

What follows is what happens each time I fall. I do not know if these things really happen but this is what I believe happens. As your eyes move across these words, some sacred engine is coming back to life and I am beginning to fall again. Sometimes, it feels like I'm floating — Iain S. Thomas

I hope you never hate anything longer than you need to. — Iain S. Thomas

I hope that if love hurts, it teaches you something about yourself or about someone else. — Iain S. Thomas

What about artists who aren't nice people? They're just nice people who cared too much for a person or a world that hurt them too much. So now they chase the world and people away. — Iain S. Thomas

The problem with the chemicals in my head is they lead to feelings in the rest of me. — Iain S. Thomas

There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well. — Iain S. Thomas

I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave. — Iain S. Thomas

And he loves her. He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers — Iain S. Thomas

If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else. — Iain S. Thomas