Cecil Castellucci Quotes

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. ~ Cecil Castellucci

But liking someone whose species you dislike is something--worth more than currency on a chit. ~ Cecil Castellucci

There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said.
'No,' Tessa said.
'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said.
They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom. ~ Cecil Castellucci

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. ~ Cecil Castellucci

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps. ~ Cecil Castellucci

Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us? ~ Cecil Castellucci

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping. ~ Cecil Castellucci

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. ~ Cecil Castellucci

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. ~ Cecil Castellucci

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? ~ Cecil Castellucci

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up. ~ Cecil Castellucci

Betrayal and grief have a certain color no matter what the species is. ~ Cecil Castellucci

It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare into a mirror and smile at myself, just to remember what one looked like. ~ Cecil Castellucci

It makes me sad that not every book is good,' I said. 'Not every book can be loved.'
'But when I pull a book off a shelf, and examine it, turning it this way and that, inspecting the cover, flipping through the pages and glancing at the words as they flash by, a thought here and a sentence there and I know that there is potential between those pages for love. Even if in my opinion the book is bad, someone else may find it good. Isn't that like love? ~ Cecil Castellucci

What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas. ~ Cecil Castellucci

My name is Lake Suck and this is my manifesto. I swear to be myself. To think for myself. I will not be led by social conventions. I will make my own way through the world. I will live on my own terms without conforming to society's expectations of who they think I should be, I will be the visible minority.
By being myself, I will help to save the world. I swear to always look, listen, learn, think, ask, act, and speak for myself. ~ Cecil Castellucci

It's been three days
still haven't heard from you.
My heart lives underwater
breathing for you.
But you break apart
my tiny heart,
giving me no chance
to start something with you.
I dove into the pool
I dove in
hoping to swim
now I'm drowning. ~ Cecil Castellucci

The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion. ~ Cecil Castellucci

When you are lost, go back to the beginning. ~ Cecil Castellucci

I was born in Hell. But I am no demon. I am beige and colorful. I was quiet in this room. But I am learning to be loud. Can you hear me? I will make my mark, wherever i am. It is my space. I'll make it mine. I choose. I choose.If I voice my truth, no one loses. ~ Cecil Castellucci

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. ~ Cecil Castellucci

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots! ~ Cecil Beaton

COMPUTER: HELLO, CECIL. HOW ARE YOU?
CECIL: Computer! I am...I am doing well. How are you?
COMPUTER: BETTER. CECIL, DO YOU LOVE COMPUTER?
CECIL: I admit, I had not given it much though. I like computers generally. They calculate and power off and on. I suppose, given time and perhaps some gifts, I could learn to... [shifting noises] hey! ~ Joseph Fink

There's a lot of downtime during immortality. ~ Cecil Baldwin

Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy. ~ Cecil Murphey

we as individual human entities would give less attention to what we want, to how we want to grow, to what we want to achieve, and more attention to how can we express the resident creative force that is inside of us, the world might be a far better place to live. ~ Cecil A. Poole

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. ~ William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. ~ Richard Cecil

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. ~ Cecil Rhodes

My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep. ~ Cecil Thounaojam

I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here. ~ Cecil O. Samuelson

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other. ~ Richard Cecil

Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case. ~ Cecil Baldwin

The river this November afternoon
Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:
A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune. ~ Cecil Day-Lewis

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead. ~ Cecil Frances Alexander

Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew ... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God. ~ Cecil Frances Alexander

By the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! ~ Katherine Cecil Thurston

The moon's weird though, right? It's there, and there, and then suddenly it's not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us? If not, what is it watching instead? Is there something more interesting than us? Hey, watch us moon! We may not always be the best show in the universe, but we try. ~ Cecil Baldwin

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success. ~ Richard Cecil

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. ~ Cecil Day-Lewis

So little done, so much to do. ~ Cecil Rhodes

The text also just grows increasingly garbled. For instance, here it says that our new subway system will streamline the rush-hour commute, but about halfway down, it's a series of nearly indecipherable glyphs our experts insist hint at "non-Euclidian emotions" and "appeasement" (though we think this may be a euphemism for "fares"). ~ Joseph Fink

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. ~ Cecil Balmond

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen ~ Cecil Rhodes

Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time. ~ Cecil O. Samuelson

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown. ~ William Cecil Dampier

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes. ~ Richard Cecil

Tell Lord Brudenell...that he has already given me satisfaction: the satisfaction of having removed the most damned bad tempered and extravagant bitch in the kingdom. ~ Cecil Woodham-Smith

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think. ~ Richard Cecil

Man begets, but land does not beget. ~ Cecil Rhodes

It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of ... I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper ... And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us. ~ Manolo Blahnik

And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes. ~ Cecil Baldwin

Cecil Palmer spoke of the horrors of everyday life. Nearly every broadcast told a story of impending doom or death, or worse: a long life lived in fruitless fear of doom or death. It wasn't that Jackie wanted to know all of the bad news of the world. It was that she loved sitting in the dark of her bedroom, swaddled in blankets and invisible radio waves. ~ Joseph Fink

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow. ~ Cecil Thounaojam