Quotes About Castellucci

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

Cecil Castellucci

#2. 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

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

Cecil Castellucci

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

Cecil Castellucci

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

Cecil Castellucci

#6. 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

#7. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Dale Carnegie

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

Cecil Castellucci

#9. She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

Raymond Chandler

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

Cecil Castellucci

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

Cecil Castellucci

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. I have seen the Future, because there is Nothing new under the Sun

Kaizen Kobe

#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.

Cecil Castellucci

#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. Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?

Guillermo Del Toro

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

Cecil Castellucci

#21. 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

#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. 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

#24. To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Eleanor Perenyi

#25. He slid his hands under her butt and she could feel him pressing against her, hot and hard and sleek. And then he thrust inside, deep, fast, burying himself inside her, breaking past whatever trace of innocence she still had remaining.

Anne Stuart

#26. his theory that all of the world's problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth. There

Jim Harrison

#27. Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

Rush Limbaugh

#28. If he knew, he'd never allow her to do the thing she needed to do most.

Jackie Castle

#29. 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.

Cecil Castellucci

#30. Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

Seth Rogen

#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. It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

Kevin Spacey

#33. A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.

Simeon Rice

#34. 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

#35. I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

Raymond Carver

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

Cecil Castellucci

#37. 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

#38. When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already.

Dave Barry

#39. 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