Cecil Castellucci quotes:

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

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.