Casting Shadows Everywhere Quotes

“If you take the meaning out of the world, all that’s left is controlling each other.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth’s history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain’t so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun’ while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Everybody wants to feel special and loved. But you sort of need to feel like you’ve earned it.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“I look for meaning even though I know I won’t really find it.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Can you imagine strangling someone for 10 minutes?”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“See, I saw someone get strangled once when I was 9.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“We all have heard a bunch of times that drinking kills brain cells, right? Right. Well, what I didn’t know was that the actual sensation of brain cells being damaged is what being drunk is. So basically people are killing their brain cause it feels good. Weird, right?”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“So I will dive head first into something new. I will sit on my hands no longer. I will reach out, grab the world by the shoulders, wrestle it to the goddamn ground, and I will do... something. I will do something. I will do anything. Cause take it from me: Anything is better than nothing. Nothing is a bottomless black hole of bad times, dude. It’s weird. I had my doubts, but I am excited now. It feels like anything is possible. It feels like there’s a reason to get up in the morning. It feels like I’m finally awake after sleepwalking for so long.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“But nobody’s perfect. So it makes you feel like... like they don’t know you at all, and they never could. They just like this imaginary perfect girl in their head, you know? And if they did figure out what you were really like, then maybe they wouldn’t like it so much. So even though someone thinking you’re perfect may sound good, it’s not.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Kind of, but it’s more than that. It’s like a lot of shit you’ve been told in your life is a lie. All these rules and all these things you worry about... they ain’t got real meanin’ on their own. The only meanin’ they got is what we give ’em, you know?”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“We all have heard a bunch of times that drinking kills brain cells, right? Right. Well, what I didn’t know was that the actual sensation of brain cells being damaged is what being drunk is. So basically people are killing their brain because it feels good. Weird, right? So the booze gets in there and starts damaging the crap out of these things called dendrites, which are sort of like the stems at the end of brain cells that communicate from one cell to another. In other words, the damaged cells can no longer talk to each other. As people first get drunk, the inhibition of communication between these neurotransmitters and stuff give them a euphoric feeling.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“But I look for meaning anyway. I look for it in books. I look for it in relationships. I look for it in the endless crowds of kids funneling in and out of the school. I look for it in death. I look for it in the snow in the middle of the night while the rest of the world sleeps. I look for it goddamn everywhere.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“It’s not like paying attention to them instead would make anything better. Maybe that is what is so hard about it all. There’s nothing useful to do with yourself in so many ways. Your mind just gropes along the edges of that empty space and can’t make any sense of it, can’t find any meaning in it, so you go back to thinking about yourself. It might be that’s all you can do.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“I bet sliced smoked sausage wouldn’t be a terrible pizza topping.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“The left brain wants to believe that all history can do is repeat the same results over and over, because recognizing patterns is how it understands the world.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“It’s like this weird oversimplified order that our left brain tries to impose upon everything. It can’t comprehend the unknown. It hates the idea of not knowing what will happen next. It won’t acknowledge that there is a randomness – a chaos”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“And then breast implants are even more so. At that point the woman is going under the knife not only to obey men but to actually debase herself in a certain way solely to be sexually attractive to men, you know? It’s no longer in any way a health issue or a grooming issue or anything like that. It’s getting huge sex balloon things attached to your body. Willingly making yourself a toy for men. Humiliating yourself, and in a way some men like that.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“It made me think about this article I read, though, about how men find skinny women attractive not based solely on physical attraction, but the idea that a skinny woman is an obedient woman. You know? If she works out and watches what she eats to meet that social norm or expectation, she is obeying what men want, and that’s part of why they like it.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“I can’t teach you some simple lesson and have that somehow prepare you for what the world is really like. I can only try to show you by having you experience different things for yourself and seein’ what you think of them.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Everything that we do wires pathways in our brain. So every time you practice a song on a guitar, you are wiring that into your brain, and each time you practice it, the wiring grows more intricate, more precise. That’s why you improve over time. That’s why repetition and practice lead to success in all things. Eventually the wiring perfects itself and your fingers just know where to go. You don’t think about it anymore. It becomes a part of you.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“There ain’t no magic power that makes right and wrong have real meanin’ is all. I mean police and prisons keep order to a degree in a real world way, but on the most basic level, there’s no order in this world like they try to say there is. None. It’s chaos. Now I coulda told you that repeatedly, but I don’t think it really strikes you until you go out and feel it for yourself.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“striding toward the store, I started to get all of those little nervous feelings: sweaty palms, churning butterfly stomach and the bloat of what felt like explosive diarrhea swelling just below that. Panic rolled over me in waves. But when I looked around, no one in the lot was paying any attention to me, even with my eyes probably shifting around like crazy. No one cared.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Every day is a chance to get better and better and better at whatever you want to do. Or whoever you want to be, I guess.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“G mode”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“And I kind of realized that his pain is real or whatever, but his pain isn’t over the loss of me as an individual. It’s over the loss of the role of a son. He doesn’t know me, so none of it connects to me. It’s a loss in his imagination, you know? Like all of the ideals and hopes people project onto their children? He lost all that. But that’s not me.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“This is what I’m sayin’: Doin’ stuff you’s scared to do and succeeding builds confidence like nothin’ else.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“I think he just changed the spelling, Robert. Like for artistic reasons.” He wrinkled his nose up and thought about it, squeezing the ball a second before he went back to firing up layups. “No. I think they’re different. Tupac Shakur and two-pack.” “Maybe you’re right,” I said. I didn’t even want to get into the whole Makaveli thing.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“-I like how she doesn’t wear makeup ever when most girls in school cake their goddamn faces with it like they’re about to go on live television.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Well, what he done to you is a fact. It is what it is. But what it means is just an idea. You can’t change a fact, but you can always change an idea.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere

“Nick says a lot of stuff like that. Like his whole life is an action movie.”
― L.T. Vargus, Casting Shadows Everywhere