Catch a Falling Star Quotes

“You should try things on, see if they fit you. If they don't, it's not failure. It's a choice. But always let yourself have a choice, let yourself have possibilities.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“Remember when you were little and you were suposed to love something? No one asked you why. You could just spend hours and hours on it, and nobody worried about whether you were going to turn it into anyting. It didn't have to be about anything...productive. You could just paint or dance, or collect bugs or sea glass and it was just a lovely thing remember?”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“That was the great thing about growing up. We got to write our own endings, thousands of them, over and over. That WAS life. It was a million little endings. Even when other people thought we were writing them wrong.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“I wanted to say something to him about regret, about how I didn’t really believe in the idea of regret because it was always based on what might have happened. People always held up the now, the concrete now, and compared it to what might have been, and that wasn’t a fair comparison.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“Dad always told me I was good at noticing moments, at appreciating the little things in life. It struck me as an odd thing, being good at noticing moments. Moments, in and of themselves, were actually pretty boring little bits of time. For most people, they were like confetti or snowflakes; they didn't amount to much until they were in groups. I think I was the opposite. I avoided the groups, the mounds of confetti or snow that had built up in my life, because I was more frightened of what those mounds might tell me to do.

I lived in the now so I didn't have to move forward.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“We're fascinated by things we can't figure out, by the things that don't have a right or wrong answer. Even when we can't explain them, we need to make some sort of sense out of them - create lists, find connections, map it out. Maybe that's why, when we can't seem to figure out all sorts of other more commonplace mysteries (like why we all keep looking at the sky as if it might talk to us), we still need to try.
We think maybe it's a lot like love, that need to make sense of the sky. We don't know why we need it, we can't explain it when it happens or when it doesn't, but we need it like we need air or food.
So we keep looking for it.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“You've got to figure out what makes the world beautiful for you, so you can help make it beautiful for other people.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“Well, we were talking about how stories need to be retold, right? What about love being a risk worth taking even when it makes no sense? I'd like to discuss that story more.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“People are probably always buried where we're standing.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“How did he know my name? My cheeks warmed at the way he said it in his charcoaled British accent. I was such a sucker for it. Too much PBS Masterpiece and Jane Austen movies.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“Did it wver throw them off, jumping so quickly between fantasy and reality?”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“You might be an old soul, Carter, but you're still seventeen”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“She pouted, picking out a licorice bean and tossing it over the side of the house.
‘I would have eaten that,’ Alien Drake told her, staring after it.
‘I know.’ She smiled widely at him.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“Adam slipped his glasses off, laying them on the table like an upside down crab.”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“My heart caught like a fish in the breathy net of his voice”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star

“People from different worlds can work out," Chloe insisted, sweeping another fry through the ketchup. "I mean, what if you're star-crossed lovers and meant to be?”
― Kim Culbertson, Catch a Falling Star