Cecil Castellucci Quotes

#1. I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Ricki Lake

#2. Success doesn't just happen. It starts for those who take action.

Donald Trump

#3. 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

#4. A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

Cecil Castellucci

#5. Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

Cecil Castellucci

#6. I want to make my mark,' he says.
But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

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#7. 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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#8. It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Cecil Castellucci

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

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#10. My life sucks. So I shave my head.

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#11. Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Adolf Hitler

#12. A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.

Christopher Paolini

#13. But the dead, they have ghosts. Ghosts are very useful for haunting. Never forget the dead, Tula. They have their function. They sometimes speak at the most useful or inopportune times.

Cecil Castellucci

#14. 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

#15. Overconfidence precedes carelessness.

Toba Beta

#16. It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

Cecil Castellucci

#17. When you are lost, go back to the beginning.

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#18. 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

#19. When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

Ice-T

#20. Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

Cecil Castellucci

#21. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#22. 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.

Cecil Castellucci

#23. games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

Ian Bogost

#24. 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

#25. Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

Ari Fleischer

#26. Damn her tongue. She really shouldn't be allowed out without a mouth chaperone.

Nana Malone

#27. You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

Beano Cook

#28. There are many places that are not made for staying," Heckleck said. "They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don't root where you don't have to, unless you're unluck.

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#29. 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

#30. Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Oscar Wilde

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

Cecil Castellucci

#34. Okay! Here's a quote for ya. My mother said "Don't read trashy books". I loved my mother but I didn't ALWAYS do what she said.

Betty

#35. 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

#36. She moaned in the darkness, all the time he possessed her. The

Pauline Reage

#37. 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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#38. Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

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#39. More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus