Felicity Castagna > Quotes

“Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose).”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“He wondered who his children were now. This was the hardest thing about being a parent, the thing that no one tells you about. The fact that you grieve for your children the moment they are born. Not so much because you've lost them but because they are always changing and you can't get back all those different versions of what they once were.”
― Felicity Castagna, No More Boats

“I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“The things you miss the most are the things you never realised you had.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“It's hard managing the past and the present and putting them all into the same story.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“In the time between when we left and when we returned there was just this infinite space where we were anyone.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“I can see the absolute truth of the world.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“My dad always said to me that things happen twice, once in real time and then again when you’re remembering them.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“And it stops my heart from beating so hard and angry for a little while. And sometimes these small things, they are enough.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

“A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat.”
― Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars