Kara Thomas > Quotes

“Everyone goes through shit, and there’s always someone somewhere who has it worse. It doesn’t make what you’re feeling any less real or any less shitty.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Hope is the most dangerous thing you can give someone.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters

“We think if we ask enough times, the answer will change.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“But after a while, searching for the answers felt like grasping around in the dark. At some point, you have to choose to live in the light.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“It's possible to know - like really know - another human being. But I'm starting to think that most of us never even want to try and know another person until it's too late to save them.”
― Kara Thomas, The Darkest Corners

“If you look hard enough, you’ll probably find something that makes you wish you hadn’t.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“I always assumed that the doubt would destroy me. But know I wonder if it's the opposite of doubt that's the dangerous thing - if instead, it's the things we're so sure of that have the power to undo us.”
― Kara Thomas, The Darkest Corners

“Pain isn’t supposed to teach you anything. It only exists to hurt you. And she should know that better than anyone.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Sometimes the outside is safer than the inside.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters

“It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Pain isn't supposed to teach you anything. It only exists to hurt you.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“At some time you have to choose to live in the light.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Whatever was a door slamming in your face; it meant I am annoyed but I don’t care enough to fight with you. In a lot of ways it was”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“You can’t believe everything you hear, though. Girls are always whittling little weapons to stab each other with.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“There are worse things in this world than monsters, and somehow, they always manage to find me.”
― Kara Thomas, The Darkest Corners

“Nothing is more terrifying than a villain who sees himself as a hero.”
― Kara Thomas, That Weekend

“She let me get away once, and the look on her face now says she'll never let it happen again.”
― Kara Thomas, The Darkest Corners

“That was when I decided that all the ghost stories got it wrong: evil isn’t a spirit or a monster or a ghost. It lives inside regular people, and it doesn’t know the difference between night and day.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters

“honk if you love jesus / text and drive if you want to meet him!”
― Kara Thomas, That Weekend

“Some people say a curse fell over our town five years ago. What else could explain the tragic deaths of five girls, in three separate incidents, in less than two months?”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Even at your worst, I love you more than life itself.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“There are some things not everyone has to know.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Maybe Tyler isn't a bad guy, but he's proof that you can do the right thing and still be wrong.”
― Kara Thomas, The Champions

“Have you ever done anything you feel like you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for?”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“But we pretend we don't know, because it makes us feel important.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Everyone goes through shit, and there's always someone somewhere who has it worse. It doesn't make what you're feeling any less real or any less shitty" -Ethan”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“loving someone shouldn’t mean giving them permission to hurt you over and over,”
― Kara Thomas, The Champions

“It's always made me sad, how showing enthusiasm for anything in eighth grade is supremely uncool. Like once you go through puberty you're expected to be dead inside and not care about anything.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters

“By the garage entrance, I spot Gavin Steiger, along with Wes St. Pierre, standing sentry. It’s easy to see why they were picked for security; they’re both massive. Both guys have gold chains around their necks, the same haircut with the shaved sides and mop of curls on top of their heads. The only difference between them is that Wes is Black, and Gavin wishes he was.”
― Kara Thomas, The Champions

“But I’m starting to think it’s possible to love someone and hate them at the same time.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters