A.R. Capetta > Quotes

“It's true, I'm no murderer. But I do have an impulse control problem. And a sword.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“A girl they couldn’t control, who wouldn’t stop talking. That’s the scariest damn thing in the universe.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“Understanding rustled through me, soft as leaves. It wasn’t quite the same, but I’d often felt I didn’t fit inside the boundaries of the word girl. It reminded me of a country I could happily visit, but the longer I stayed, the more I knew I couldn’t live there all the time. There were moments when I sorely wished to be free of the confines of this body, the expectations it seemed to carry.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Brilliant Death

“That's what resistance looks like, Merlin. It's not one glorious, shining victory. It's a torch that you keep burning, no matter what.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“The path humans took through time was less the mythical arrow of progress, and more of a squiggle that doubled back on itself, curling and looping. A roller coaster designed by a drunkard.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. Having a gender? Why? Feeling like your body and who you are inside line up all the time? How? Identifying with other folks of your assigned gender as a kid, when I identified with things like extra-fluffy cumulus clouds and nebulas? What does that even feel like? I get nervous trying to explain myself sometimes. I get tired. I grow sharp edges where I didn’t think I had any. And I definitely get to the point where I just want to bury myself in baking and not deal with any of it.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“I think people need heroes. I think you're a hero. It's that simple to me.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“I want to be with a person who orders my favorite cake just because it’s Tuesday. That might be my new working definition of love.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“Because too many people believe that difference is the enemy of unity.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“But that’s it,” Cielo said. “We’re not like them. Or rather, we are and we aren’t. People hold a deep fear of complication.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Brilliant Death

“The things I did to keep myself safer, smaller, quieter. Because I know how different I really am. I know that letting it all out is committing to a life where I fight the monsters of normality every single day. And doing it alone.”
― A.R. Capetta, Stranger Things - Rebel Robin

“I have learned that fear is a kind of death.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“He would settle for an awkward handshake with destiny.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“That's what lazy people say. Time heals all wounds. These things take time. It's only a matter of...time. You and I have been here long enough to know that's not true. Wounds fester, and time changes nothing.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“I’m Merlin the magician, and I come to you now at the turn of the tides.” Kay stared openmouthed at this attempt at dramatic grandeur. “Well, that’s Gandalf’s line, but I had to try it at least once.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“I can’t legally tell you to lick the beaters, but if you believe in living life to the fullest, you know what to do.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“I had discovered a special way that women could be dangerous. They were trained to play close attention to people. To take them apart, like Luca had done with his clockworks, and study how they ran.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Brilliant Death

“Most boys believed they should be heroes: the stories told them so.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“Really? That plaque over there says chivalry gave birth to toxic masculinity, which caused Old Earth a few millennia of bullshit patriarchy.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“This place…” He pointed to the city, then lapsed into song lyrics, a habit that bubbled up when he was nervous. “‘Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“Fixing a glitch in the space-time continuum.”
― A.R. Capetta, Stranger Things - Rebel Robin

“I just don’t want anyone to notice me not being there. I don’t want anyone to notice me at all, until I’m gone.”
― A.R. Capetta, Stranger Things - Rebel Robin

“Without magboots, Merlin was floating in the air, spinning slowly toward an upside-down position that would give them an unfortunate view of whatever he was—or wasn’t—wearing under that bathrobe.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“A government that cannot handle criticism cannot handle governing.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“...the only time I feel truly all right and fully myself is when I’m alone.”
― A.R. Capetta, Stranger Things - Rebel Robin

“Misery loves to look pretty.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“I can imagine being myself, all of myself, but only somewhere else.”
― A.R. Capetta, Stranger Things - Rebel Robin

“Why are you being nice to them right now?" Hex asked.
"I'm British!" Merlin cried.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“You are unprecedented.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“Now that I was a boy words flowed out of me with no obstruction. As a girl I'd had to swallow at least half of what I wanted to say. Being allowed to speak my mind felt like running wild down a mountain slope. I might fall and break myself on the rocks at any moment, but for now all I felt was a heady rush.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Brilliant Death