Kate Racculia > Quotes

“Though maybe that's all life ever is. Unimaginable, until it's happening to you.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Having someone care about you makes you want to give a shit, especially if you’re having trouble caring about yourself.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“There is only ever one afternoon, and it ends. But one afternoon can hold so much beauty and so much love.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Don't cheat your friendships. Don't ask them to mean less to you than they do, or think they only have value if they're a stop on the way to a *real* relationship. All relationships are real. Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It's all a kind of love, and love isn't any one kind of thing.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

“Libraries had always made her feel like a kid, in a good way: secret and safe and taken care of, rocked to sleep in a cocoon of books.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“This is why. This is _why_. This is why he plays, why he loves, why he listens. It isn't even a high--a high is too low--it is synchronicity with the universe. Physical proof of the three-part harmony between body and soul and song, all three living, dying, resonating.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Maybe that's what he reminds her of: they are both full of dark corners, odd places, possibly ghosts.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Maybe this was how adult friendships happened: by accident, embroidered over time, visible only from the height of years.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“The point is that it might open a part of you that's always been closed. The point is you might make yourself heard. You might find you have a beautiful and terrible - you have a power... We make music to - to find each other in the dark. And I have to believe the point is that we don't - we don't ever stop calling out.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“They're ghosts, surely, and Rabbit absolutely believes in them. There are things in the world, strange machinations of physics and chemistry,queer intersections of biology and theology, that Rabbit hasn't the slightest interest in assuming he'll ever understand or be able to solve. They're simply there to be believed in, and Rabbit is a born believer. He wants to believe. He has always thought of life as pregnant with possibility-- a freak twister or wardrobe the only thing separating him from another world-- so ghosts, spirits, aliens and supreme beings coexist within Rabbit with ease. There's a kind of beauty in accepting the possibility, if not the plausibility, of everything imaginable.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“How many people has this hotel eaten?”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Tomorrow you could be anyone. Imagine that.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

“Her father thought Facebook was hilarious—“Six people liked what I had for breakfast. What a world!”—and her mother mostly used it to take personality quizzes. “Guess what?” she’d say, as though passing along hot intel. “If I were a Muppet, I’d be Gonzo.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Yes,” said Lila under her breath. “I am aware I married a fortune cookie.” “In a cape,” said Dex. “Well done.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“What you felt, the beast that swallowed you all and spat you back out, that is the great big bloody point of all this. If you learn nothing else from this bizarre and awkward experience--this gathering of strangers to blow into horns and pluck catgut--remember that you have the power to feel that. The power to create that. With your hands. Your breath. You are gods, children, and you can make war.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Because my heart is running the show today.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“All humans are filing cabinets,” she said finally. “Some are just better organized than others.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Elision was the best kind of lying. You didn’t even have to lie, just selectively tell.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Alice wonders if anyone has ever tended Jill, in any way, and if her intelligent ferocity is what happens when a girl has had to teach herself how to be human.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Why don’t I become the person I’m looking for?”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Rabbit had never understood music before as an agent of connection, as a way for people not only to feel within themselves but to feel among themselves, a language that brought common souls into conversation. Beethoven could talk to him and could talk to his father, and he and his father could talk Beethoven to each other.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Isn’t that what growing up is? Shedding the fat and the fluff until you’re this sleek, perfect beast, entirely the you you were meant to be?”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“There was only the promise and the hope that other people can be good, are good; that other people are the reason we are alive on Earth at all. Friendship required more faith than any other kind of love”
― Kate Racculia, This Must Be the Place

“I mean . . . do you?” she said. “Does anyone? I thought that was the first rule: trust no one.” “Should you be taking life advice from a poster in the basement of the FBI? On a television show?” Dex asked. “That poster said I want to believe.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Alice is horrified at the prospect of losing her grip on the most essential things in her life—her brother, her talent, her self—in the seismic shift known as life after graduation. She can’t imagine who she’ll be on the other side.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“How rich we are in knowledge,
and in all that lies around us yet to learn.
Billionaires, all of us. —URSULA K. LE GUIN”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“Performance, by comparison, had always felt more authentic. Performance was alive, so performance had to die. A piece or a song or a play was designed to last for only as long as it took to perform, to begin and end and echo in the mind. But he had to admit there was something noble, too, in the pursuit of permanence, and something beautiful and sad about how much art had been lost and forgotten by time.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“They filled his secret heart and made it less afraid.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“You hold this book because of my friends, who are my family; and my family, who are my friends. It exists because I didn’t stop, and I didn’t stop because of the people I’m lucky to know and to love. You keep me safe and sane; you make my life rich. My beloved Bostonians: Laura Q. (my common-law Boston marriage) and Mike Messersmith, Jason and Karen Clarke,”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: A Mystery Adventure of Puzzles, Humor, and the Courage to Face Your Ghosts

“In his earliest memories he was sitting on the floor in the family room, in front of the giant stereo his parents had bought themselves as a wedding present, his face pressed into the padded fabric of one speaker. The fabric was prickly against his forehead but his nose fit perfectly into a little groove, and he could feel music spilling like molten gold through his entire body. He'd sit back on his heels when the song was over and his father, an accountant and amateur drummer whose (still-unrealized) dream was to open a jazz club and coffee house, would say, "Order up!" and put another record on the turntable. Rabbit's favorite albums were by Earth, Wind & Fire (syncopation made his brain feel like it was laughing) and Also sprach Zarathustra, its opening rumbling like an earthquake. And he loved The White Album, and when his mother played ABBA on the piano and they'd sing together (though Alice couldn't do it without being a total showoff), and the Star Wars soundtrack, and of _course_ Zeppelin. For six months in 1984, he had asked his parents to play "Stairway to Heaven" instead of a bedtime story.”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody