T.W. Shannon Quotes
Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)
Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)
I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)
I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)
...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)
I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica
The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.
A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.
If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.
The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.
A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.
One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true.
When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.
You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.
If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.
L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.
Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?
The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
My life wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t see any passionate reason to love it.
I've noticed that houses take on the personality of the people who live in them. I'm not sure how it happens, but they become alive in some way, as if they have their own spirit.
The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.
The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.
Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.
I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I’ve been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...
You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.
Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.
I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)
Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
Public success flourishes when we uphold private order.
I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.