“Sometimes absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.”
A.J. Compton“Nobody sees me like you do, and without you, I’ll be invisible. I exist because you see me.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“I’m a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don’t want to. I don’t know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That’s it.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“We’ve gotten to that stage all soulmates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“And suddenly I realize that all those books and movies had gotten it wrong.When you find your souls reflection in another, you shouldn’t be aware of anything other than their body, yours, and the space between.You shouldn’t be looking for someone whose kiss causes you to escape reality by transporting you to another time and place. Look for the person whose kiss grounds you firmly in the moment, whose arms hold you safely in the now.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“We are forever changed, forever united.From almost-us to always us.We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers“Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it’s only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That’s okay. Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It’s the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It’s the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You’ll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity.”
A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers