19 Of The Most Beautifully Written Iain Thomas Quotes

“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, amazon.com

“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, reddit.com

“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”

— Iain Thomas, goodreads.com

“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, amazon.com

“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”

— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me

“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, amazon.com

“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…”

— Iain Thomas, barnesandnoble.com

“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“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, amazon.ca

“The heart is a muscle like any other.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“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, amazon.com

“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…”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“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, amazon.com