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

- 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

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

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

- Cecil Castellucci

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

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…

- Cecil Castellucci

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

- 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 d…

- Cecil Castellucci

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

- Cecil Castellucci