Cecil Castellucci Quotes
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I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.
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I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
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Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is not just stewardess or nurse. But we still have to deal with micro-aggressions and daily sexism. We are still fighting for word over our own bodies. We still get the short shrift on equal pay. We're still not represented in media or the arts with total parity. Not on screen or on the page or behind the scenes. It's still not easy. There is still this constant low-grade fight to be seen and taken seriously when you are a girl and when you become a woman. It totally sucks.
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Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.
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I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
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Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.
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Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
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A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.
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It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.
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Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that’s where the good stuff lies.
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It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
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Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.