Chelsea Sedoti > Quotes

“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world what was better than the real one. A world where there were adventures and mysteries and magic. Except, of course, books ended eventually, and then you had to go back to being yourself.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“You’d think I’d be used to this agony by now , but it always catches me off guard. Anyone who says grief fades over time is a fucking liar. It never goes away. It just gets better at hiding. You never know when it’s going to spring out of the shadows and sucker punch you in the gut.
Grief is a real asshole.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“It’s nice to know someone thinks of you as a person, not an opportunity.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“Don't talk then. Paint. Dance. Write. Just don't hold your feelings inside. The longer we let pain hide in our hearts, the more it turns to poison.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“Choices, by nature, are not right or wrong. They are only different paths, all ultimately leading to the same end.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Well, say you only have two choices. You can like red or you can like blue. It’s easy to look at those two colors and decide that, between them, you like red. But when you consider all the colors in the world, then what? You could narrow it down to liking red, but what shade of red? Some of them are practically the same. And some are way different. But they’re all red, so you like them all, because who ever said a person can like just one color and that’s it? But you’re asking me to pick one color and like it for the rest of my life.”

“And,” I go on, “every time you talk to someone who’s already picked their color, some adult who’s had their whole life to think about their decision, you know what they say? They regret what they chose. So now they’re stuck their whole life with orange, but they’ve realized orange was a shit color to start with.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Don't confuse being popular with being interesting”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“When someone dies, it doesn't just take them. It takes a piece of everyone who ever loved them and everyone they ever loved.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“These notes are little pieces of history no one cares about, but they remind you that you're not the first person to hold that book. Someone else owned it first and read the exact same words, and one way or another, it impacted them. We're all connected.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“I’d just finished a book I really loved, and you know how sometimes you don’t want to start a new book because you’re still stuck in the world of the last one?”
― Chelsea Sedoti, Tell Me What Really Happened

“...do you ever know a moment is important as it's happening, or is it only when you look back that you can see your life is changed?”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“Growth comes from questioning our own hearts. But unrelenting self-doubt can lead you astray.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“Being extraordinary is kind of overrated.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Life is full of tough times and hard decisions. But as long as you choose to do the right thing, you’ll be OK.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“The most beautiful thing about the world is how much is unknown to us. There are so many secrets, Hawthorn. So much awaiting discovery. We are merely dust motes in the vastness of the universe.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“if you refuse to believe in something just because you can’t see it, you'll live an empty life.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, Tell Me What Really Happened

“I can be a hero and a villain all in one night.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“As long as something was a mystery, there was still the potential for amazement. Maybe that's where I went wrong before. Some riddles weren't meant to be solved.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“Eldon, we all mess up. No one should measure their worth by how often they screw up. What matters most is how a person deals with the aftermath. How they grow and change.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Do you ever feel like you have this idea of who you want to be? And you try and try and try to be that person, but sometimes you step back and realize it's only pretending. Deep down, no matter what, you're always just you.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, Tell Me What Really Happened

“Movies were movies, whether they were old or new. They always captivated me, pulled me into worlds where anything was possible. Worlds where there were adventures and surprises, and life was never dull.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“But I always wondered, if she could turn her feelings off like a switch, how much was she hiding from us? It had made her seem mysterious. Which is stupid. She wasn't mysterious; she was depressed.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“The whole idea of wishing is screwed up.”
“That didn’t stop you from making your wish,” I point out.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“While watching the revelry in the Barn, I'd had an epiphany. Parties weren't just about who was who and being seen. It was about letting go. About celebrating that we all made it through one more boring week. Everyone came together in one place, and for a while, it was as if nothing mattered except the music and the energy and being away from all of the adults in our lives. These parties were about freedom.
And friendship. They were about friendship too.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“But I should have taken it more seriously. I should have known that someone going missing isn't a game. That's how I treated it. You know, like Lizzie went missing just for my amusement”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“You can only truly love art if you’ve bled for it.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Yeah, you're such an outcast. No one understands you. All anyone does is sit around and think about what a loser you are. Grow up, Hawthorn. No one cares.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“I didn't wave my daisy. I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett danced overhead. That was life. We all have a place.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett