Cassandra in Reverse Quotes

“I don't know why they're both under the impression I must have seen the end coming when I very much did not.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“I get caught up with trying to read all the music around me instead of one note inside myself.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Time is so incredibly fragile. It’s like tissue paper, like gossamer, like a spider’s web in the corner of a kitchen cupboard.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“There are infinite things you can do with time. You can save it, spend it, stitch it, kill it. You can beat it, steal it and watch it fly. You can do time and set it; you can waste it and keep it; it can be good or bad, on your side or against you. You can have a whale of it; be in the nick of it or behind it; you can have it on your hands. Memories are time travel, and so are regrets, hopes and daydreams. When we die, the people we love carry us forward into it.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Where does a story end? It’s a lie, the last page of a book, because it masquerades as a conclusion. A real conclusion—the culmination of something—when what you’re being offered is an arbitrary line in the sand. This story ends here. Pick a random event. Ignore whatever comes after it, or write a sequel. Pretend the world stops when the book closes, or that a final chapter isn’t simply another random moment on a curated timeline. But life isn’t like that, so books are dishonest. Maybe that’s why humans like them.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Love is a courageous thing to pursue, and to me Eos represents hope, and resilience, and light in the darkest hour. She represents the strength to keep trying, even when you know you’re doomed. She represents new beginnings and refusing to accept defeat. She also represents the ability to change your husband into a cicada when he gets very old and kind of annoying.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“I don’t think we talk enough, as a species, about how ridiculously difficult it is to make basic conversation. People act like it should be fun, but it isn’t.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Time is the invisible thread that weaves our stories together. And sixty seconds can change everything.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“I don’t understand it, but there’s just something in me that knows how to stand still when the earth shatters.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“as if I’m a broken piece of Lego that no other bits of Lego can click on to.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“You care about me so much but you don’t think you can love me? Not in the way you want to love someone? Not in the way you’re waiting to love someone?”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“In Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess of rainbows: the human personification of the spectrum, who uses the symbol of the rainbow to link the gods to humanity, sky to earth.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“When things go well, a shadow overturns it all.
When badly, a damp sponge wipes away the picture. Aeschylus”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Memories are time travel, and so are regrets, hopes and daydreams. When we die, the people we love carry us forward into it.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“When you’re autistic, from birth you’re told that there’s something ‘wrong’ with you, even if nobody is quite sure what it is. I’ve spent most of my life feeling ‘broken’: as if my way of thinking and feeling and speaking and simply experiencing the world is abnormal, and should be hidden as much as possible if I want to be accepted. Finding a way to love yourself when others don’t is incredibly difficult, because we all tend to define our sense of ‘self’ through what we’re told by others: by society in general, by our peers, by the media, by the art we consume. It’s hard to stand against the world and be yourself.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“...I don't know why anyone is surprised at how the world treats you. This has never really been a planet that embraces difference.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“There are infinite things you can do with time.
You can save it, spend it, stitch it, kill it.
You can beat it, steal it and watch it fly.
You can do time and set it; you can waste it and keep it; it can be good or bad, on your side or against you. You can have a whale of it; be in the nick of it or behind it; you can have it on your hands.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse