Thomas Lloyd Qualls Quotes

#1. i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#2. words are a border collie's
worst nightmare.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#3. The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#4. love has no master.
love knows no yesterday.

love seeks no tomorrow.
love needs nothing.

and nothing can be
taken from love.
love is terrifyingly complete.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#5. You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you've left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#6. In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#7. The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#8. Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#9. the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#10. The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls