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Kacen Callender QUOTES

Kacen Callender QUOTES

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

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

2 " The idea of not being alone -- of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I'm real. Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyone else. That I get to be here because there's someone else who wants me here too. "

― Kacen Callender , Hurricane Child

3 " If you feel the need to do it - to write, or paint, or take photos or anything - then that’s what you have to do. That’s the one most important thing you can do. Because if you don’t, then there isn’t any point to anything, right? You’ve got to do it. You’ve got to keep writing. "

― Kacen Callender , This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

4 " I feel like I’ve been physically attacked. Like someone took control of who I am. Took that control away from me. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

5 " What’s it like, to be in love and have that other person love you, too? Is it another level of friendship? Another level of trust, vulnerability, always telling that person your thoughts and feelings, sharing every little thing with them so that you’re so in sync that it’s like you’re one person? Is it like every time you see them, your heart goes wild, and you can’t think because you’re so effing happy? Is it like whenever they’re away, you feel like you’re missing a piece of yourself? Does knowing someone loves you fill you with confidence, because you know you’re the type of person who deserves love? "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

6 " It’s almost like I was looking for the pain and the hurt, because it was easier to live with the idea that, even though I want love, I’m not the kind of person who deserves to be loved. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

7 " But even if that happens - that doesn’t take away anything that happened before. The present. The fun you’ll have, everything you’ll learn about yourself. Nothing will take that away. So is it worth it? You’re damned right it’s worth it. "

― Kacen Callender , This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

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

― Kacen Callender , King and the Dragonflies

9 " I’m realizing it doesn’t really matter if we have a happy ending or not. We’re happy right now. That’s the important part, right? "

― Kacen Callender , This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

10 " It had never really crossed my mind I guess to think about doing self portraits. They've always felt a little narcissistic to me and I'm not exactly the guy who wants to, or is even able to, stare at myself all day. I never take selifes and I barely like glancing at myself in mirrors. Dysphoria has played a huge part in that. It's what Dr. Rodriquez first called the feeling I have when I see myself and I know I don't look the way I'm supposed to. The discomfort I used to have in seeing my hair long and a chest that wasn't flat. I've been lucky enough to see most of the changes I want to see, but I'm still the shortest guy of all my classmates and sometimes I can feel strangers' stares as they watch me, questioning my gender. "Self-portraits are empowering," Jill says. "They force you to see yourself in a way that's different than just looking in a mirror or snapping a picture on your phone. Painting a self-portrait makes you recognize and accept yourself, both on the outside and within. Your beauty, your intricacies, even your flaws. It isn't easy by any means," she tells me then shrugs. "But anything that reveals you, the real you, isn't easy. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

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

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

12 " I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

13 " It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

14 " 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. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

15 " It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

16 " I mean, I WANT to be in love. That’s something I’ve always wanted to feel. What’s it like, to be in love and have that other person love you, too? Is it another level of friendship? Another level of trust, vulnerability, always telling that person your thoughts and feelings, sharing every little thing with them so that you’re so in sync that it’s like you’re one person? Is it like every time you see them, your heart goes wild, and you can’t think because you’re so effing happy? Is it like whenever they’re away, you feel like you’re missing a piece of yourself? Does knowing someone loves you fill you with confidence, because you know you’re the type of person who deserves love? And what’s it like to break up with someone you love? What’s it like to decide to try again, and let yourself fall in love with someone else? To decide to take that chance you might get hurt, but still want to try? I don’t know. But I want to. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

17 " It can be easier, sometimes, to choose to love someone you know won't return your feelings. At least you know how that will end. It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. It's the real, loving relationships that can be the scariest. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

18 " Even if a creator made a character to be straight, they put those characters out into the world, right? So those characters are mine now. And I say that Steve and Bucky are gay as hell. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

19 " I see at least one thing a day that makes me wonder if the straight people are all right. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After

20 " I look at the moon, and I can’t help but think of everyone else on the planet who’s looking up at it, too, and how alone I am, even though we’re all here on the same Earth. I think about the fact that we should all be connected, but we’re not. We’re too preoccupied trying to hurt each other. It makes me think of how hypocritical I can be, and the mistakes I’ve made, and the ways I’ve hurt people, too. "

― Kacen Callender , Felix Ever After