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Craig Thompson Quotes

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered Hush.

Craig Thompson

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered Hush.

Tags: blankets, love, novel

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Craig Thompson

I love the sea because it is boundless.

About Author
Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is an American graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), and Space Dumplins (2015). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.

We didn't want to waste this second chance

Craig Thompson

We didn't want to waste this second chance

Tags: love

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of b...

Craig Thompson

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of b...

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

Craig Thompson

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

Tags: companionship, memory, reality

I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.

Craig Thompson

I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.

The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell...So that both veils disappear, and God's followers...

Craig Thompson

The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell...So that both veils disappear, and God's followers...

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Craig Thompson

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.

Craig Thompson

Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free.I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Craig Thompson

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free.I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

And yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Craig Thompson

And yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

They say a man's inspiration is visual, but for a woman, it's the narrative. Abandon both the narrative and the visual. Close your eyes, measure your breath. Dead weight is sloughed off, dust swept aw...

Craig Thompson

They say a man's inspiration is visual, but for a woman, it's the narrative. Abandon both the narrative and the visual. Close your eyes, measure your breath. Dead weight is sloughed off, dust swept aw...

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Craig Thompson

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Tags: insightful, longing

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

Craig Thompson

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

Tags: heaven, hope, memory

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Craig Thompson

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Craig Thompson

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Tags: profound

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

Craig Thompson

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but n...

Craig Thompson

Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but n...

Tags: loneliness, love

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Craig Thompson

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.