Rob Costello > Rob's Quotes

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“This city eats pretty boys like us alive if we let it.”
― Rob Costello, An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys

“That’s why I chose you. Only we can see each other for who we truly are.”
― Jonathan Lenore Kastin, We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures