44 Quotes by Kacen Callender

It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. It's the real, loving relationships that can be the scariest.

The question of if I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing in this lifetime. The thought sends a spike of fear through me.

Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe.

There’s much more in this life to fear than just spirits, and if I let fear rule my every move, I will become nothing more than a little ghost child myself. I want to be brave. I want to live the life I was given. So what if the spirits hear us call their names? Let them hear it.

I’ve never been afraid to speak my mind before in my life. That’s what feels worse than anything else. Silencing myself, when I’ve so often fought to be heard against people like Missus Wilhelmina and Anise Fowler and her hyenas. They aren’t telling me to shut up now. I’m telling myself. I’m a traitor to my own voice.

Do you ever feel like you’re only ever watching? I ask Declan. Never really participating. Never really doing. Just always watching.

Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join.

But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together.And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another.

He’s created his bubble of privilege, where no one is allowed but people like him, and because of that he doesn’t understand the world around him—doesn’t want to understand the world around him, because it’s too scary for him, too challenging. I start to feel a little sorry