Every Word You Cannot Say Quotes

“I feel like I’m the only one who feels the things I feel, or thinks the way I think.  I’m worried that I’m taking everything too seriously, or not seriously enough.  Sometimes I want you to see me, and sometimes I want to disappear.  I don’t know if I’ve ever truly felt like the ground beneath me was firm.  Things always feel like they’re moving and I never get the chance to catch up to them and when I do, it feels like it all goes too quickly.  I am nice to people I don’t like because I don’t know what else to do.  I feel like I’m waiting for something but I don’t know what it is.  I often walk past people in the street, and I wonder if anyone else is waiting too.  I don’t know if I’m ever, really, “Here.” So I'm fine.* *I'm not fine.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“You can hide so much, you forget what it's like to be found. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“I know that, sometimes, you wish someone would just say the words you needed to hear because, sometimes, you don't even know what those words are. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“You cannot fix me because I am not broken. And even though everything has changed, I am still more than I've ever been. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Sometimes, you don't think you deserve goodness. But, I promise you, we all have things we think we don't deserve. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“And if you find someone with a head made of colors and a heart made of secrets, try to love them like they need to be loved. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“We only hear the loudest voices when really, we should be listening to the quietest. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Let’s talk about it another time.*

*If I’m honest, sometimes I feel like we’ve been trying to find each other in every life before this one, and this is as close as we’ve ever gotten. And I know now that we have to try again because we fucked this up. Maybe we won’t even be born on the same continent next time, or the time after that, and we’ll just spend those lives searching for something we can’t find, miserable for reasons we will never understand. Until we get to try again. Until we somehow find each other in another life.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Everyone you meet along the way is just someone at a different point in their story.
So be patient and kind.
But don’t let anyone tell you how your story should go.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Kindness is not a currency, and if you treat it like one, then that is not kindness.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Not everyone wins the lottery,
but everyone who does
bought a ticket.

To live the life you want,
you have to be brave
and buy the ticket every single day.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“There is a kind of light that can shine in anyone, if they give themselves the space to shine. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“There is a special kind of sadness that can only be found in the confusion between who you think you are and who you think other people want you to be.§”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“And we’re not everything we could be, because we’re afraid to allow ourselves to exist all at once, because too many people have told us not to.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“I really do hope you find what you’re looking for, and I hope you find something
new to look for after that, and I hope some part of you is always looking and that
you discover that searching is something beautiful we all do.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Now listen:  You are made of good things. You are capable of incredible things. You are a song the universe sings itself, in every color it can imagine. Some parts are sad. Some parts are happy. Every part of the song, is a part of you.   Listen. Listen to the sound of the universe.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“But if we are the monster, and the person being chased, then we need to stop running because we cannot run away from ourselves.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“It was dark and I didn't know if the sun would come out again. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“You can be someone who matters to others.
You can be someone who matters to you.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Even if you do it quietly you have to give yourself the life you want.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“I know strangers can stain your heart in the same way.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“And sometimes, things are hard.
I know that, once, someone touched your hand and you did not want them to pull their hand away, but they did and this made you sad. And for this reason, I also know that sometimes you smile even when there’s nothing to smile about.
I know that the grass grew while you were sleeping. I know that somewhere on the other side of the world, the sun shone on people you will never meet.
I know that at least once, if not several times, someone you knew woke up in the middle of the night thinking of you and wondering what became of you.
And they’ve contemplated calling you out of the blue.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“I know you feel things and wish sometimes that someone was there to tell you that you’re allowed to feel everything you’re feeling.
I know that, sometimes, you wish someone would just say the words you needed to hear because, sometimes, you don’t even know what those words are.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“You cannot fix me because I am not broken.
And even though everything has changed, I am still more me than I’ve ever been.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“In me is a song that no one can silence. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Go find a way to be like dust in light, suspended above the carpet, go find a new way to be that doesn’t make you feel like you’re trying to be anything at all.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Sometimes, I hide in a coffee shop because I want to hear my name being called by a stranger, by someone I haven’t disappointed yet.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“As a child, I would cry when someone took something away from me. When someone would say, “You have this. Now you no longer have this.” You think I have grown up. I have not.
It still hurts when the things and people I love are taken away from me.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“Often, we hate people not because they have wronged us, but because they have reminded us of some secret part of ourselves that we don’t like. Maybe, making peace with the world starts with making peace with ourselves.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“The wind does not stop being the wind
when it stops blowing.
A wave does not stop being a wave when it
crashes against the shore.
A story does not stop being a story when you turn the page.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say