“And you taught me what this feels like. And then how it feels to lose it. And you showed me who I wanted. And then who I wasn’t. And you ticked every box. And then drew a line. And you weren’t mine to begin with. And then not to end with. And you looked like everything I wanted. And then became something I hated. And you get thought of every day. And then not in a good way. And you let me leave. And then wish I’d stayed. And you almost killed me. But I didn’t die.”
—I Wrote This For You
“Every word you write makes you a better writer, and there are a lot of bad words that you need to get through before you can get to the good ones.”
—Iain Thomas
“Perhaps I can live through this. But I would be deluding myself if I thought that late at night, before I slept, she wouldn't return to haunt me. And that would be unfair to whomever I was trying to sleep next to. No matter how pure my intentions were. There are no soulmates. Love is a lie. Love, is broken.”
—Intentional Dissonance
“She’s like a cancer in my mind and some part of me knows that she’ll be there until I die. Some part of me knows that she’ll kill me. There’s nothing I can do that she won’t be in. I could drink water and it would taste like her lips. I could stare at the sky and the birds flying by would be there like the first time we kissed. And you know what? None of it was real. Not one moment. She was my whole life and now I’m left with nothing but the fragment of a broken memory. Less than a moment. I built my heart around her in the time it took to smoke two cigarettes. ”
—Intentional Dissonance, Iain S. Thomas
Intentional Dissonance
“…words are forever. Even if you kill the person who writes them, words are forever. Even if you disagree with them and spend the rest of your days arguing against what was said, what was said, was still said.”
“Something else is in control of you and when that happens, you can either fight it or ignore it or try to justify it, or you can do what you’re doing, which is try to make it make sense. That’s what you’re doing.”
”Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing the things they wanted to do. So they’d edit their photographs and edit their lives and edit and lie until from a distance, it looked like they had the perfect life.”
“…if you can show me a life without a question, I’ll show you someone without purpose.”
“The feeling of being happy. It doesn’t happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don’t over-analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.”
“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”
“…never apologise for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologise for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”
-Iain S. Thomas
