T.W. Shannon Quotes
God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.
Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.
You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.
Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?
What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.
Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.
Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.
There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.
A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.
I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.
It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly, It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.
History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.
You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.
Sing swan, Spring swan then lets fly.Follow the pretty bird across the sky.Call swan, Fall swan, then lets rest.Tucked in the branches of your quiet nest.
Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.
I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.
One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)
I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)
Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)
I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)
I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)
Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)
I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)