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19 Of The Most Beautifully Written Iain Thomas Quotes

I kept wondering how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.
Kirsten Corley
October 27, 2016
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Poetry, Kissing, Love, Lust, Destruction, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public affection left. And now everyone else I ever love is going to think me boring. Because I used it all up on you. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: romance, Love, Romantic, Relationships, Heartbreak, Falling In Love, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“Things just break sometimes. Maybe we should blame the third person we became, that personality we shared together. Maybe it's their fault because you're a good person and I think I'm a good person too. We just weren't made for this. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
“The heart is a muscle like any other.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. 

It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go.

That's when it counts. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Change, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, Rising To Challenges, Motivating
“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Relationships, Heartbreak
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward
“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Overcoming, Overcoming Obstacles, Rising To Challenges, Perserverance, Self-Direction
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”
— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Tagged: Happiness, Human Nature, Courage, Inspirational
“He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire
“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Logic, Emotion, Rationality, Healing, INFP, ENFP
“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Love Letters, What Could Have Been, Taking A Chance, Taking Risks
“You still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and must never suffer the indignity of actually still existing. Of being real. Of having flaws. Of breaking and deteriorating. Only the things you no longer have will always be perfect.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words
Tagged: Imagination, Perfection, Value, Love, Idealism, Memory, Nostalgia
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Touch, Love, Lust, Desire, Sex
“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”
— Iain Thomas, The Agony Of Being Other People
Tagged: Identity
“Sometimes the problem isn’t that we should treat others as we’d want to be treated, the problem is that we do, and we don’t realize that actually, we should treat others how they want to be treated.”
— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Tagged: Relationships, Friendship, Treating People As They Want To Be Treated, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”
— Iain Thomas, 25 Love Poems For The NSA
Tagged: Conversation, Skin Deep, Love, Sensuality, Passion, Writers
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
— Iain Thomas, /r/quotes
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Don't Be Afraid, Sweetness
“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 Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Human Condition, Never Apologize, Feelings