Geekerella Quotes

“Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Never give up on your dreams, and never let anyone tell you that what you love is inconsequential or useless or a waste of time. Because if you love it? If that OTP or children's card game or abridged series or YA book or animated series makes you happy?
That is never a waste of time. Because in the end we're all just a bunch of weirdos standing in front of other weirdos, asking for their username.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“I'm half of my father. Half of my hero. And I am half of my mother. Half soft sighs and half sharp edges. And if they can be Carmindor and Amara--then somewhere in my blood and bones I can be too. I'm the lost princess. I'm the villain of my story, and the hero. Part of my mom and part of my dad. I am a fact of the universe. The Possible and the Impossible. I am not no one. I am my parents' daughter, and then I realize--I realize that in this universe they're alive too. They're alive through me. Fashioning my hands into a pistol, I point it at the ceiling, lifting my chin, raising my eyes against the blinding stage lights, and I ignite the stars.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“-Elle, we might not know much about each other, and I might not be there, and you might not be here, but I'm glad I share this sky with you.
-Maybe we should start looking up together, ah'blena”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“When you can't win the fight, you get bigger guns."

- Episode 14, "Better Space Than Never”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“I miss parts of it. I don't miss the actual place. That's never as good as you remember it.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“And if we're both looking up at the same sky, how far apart can we REALLY be? What were the odds of us being put on the same slab of rock in this huge universe?”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“She's like a Dalek with a blacklist. Absolutely relentless.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Do I not meet your fangirl expectation?”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“It isn’t the kind of kiss to end a universe of possibilities. It’s the exact opposite. It’s the kind of kiss that creates them.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Starlight, star bright, you can be anyone you want to be tonight.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“If you believe in yourself and have a few good friends, then you can do anything. You can be anything.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“She reaches out to take the jacket. I hesitate for a moment, like Frodo with his Ring, but then I remember ow much crap Frodo walked into and I'd rather not end up like Frodo. So I give it to Sage.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“I've met my doom, and it isn't even breakfast yet.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“It's also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone's cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“We might all be different - we may ship different things or be in different fandoms - but if I learned anything from twenty-three days in a too-blue uniform playing a character I thought I could never be, it's that when we become those characters, pieces of ourselves light up like glow sticks in the night. They shine. We shine. Together. And even when some of us fall to different universes, those lights never go out.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Ever since I can remember, my fingers have itched to make things. To write. I have filled journals, finished fanfics, escaped again and again into the pages of someone else’s life.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“And may the force be with those chimichangas.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“That is why this universe is impossible: because all the good things are impossible to keep. The universe always takes them away.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Even self-rescuing princesses sometimes feel like no one.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Look, look!” Sage crows. I jerk my head up from my phone. Out in front of us, James rounds out of one of the beachwear shops, pushes a hairy guy in trunks out of the way, and sprints toward the public bathrooms.

Wide-eyed, I stare at Sage. “Did you…”

Sage smiles her demon grin. “Were those the new batch of chimichangas? Or were they chimichangas from last week?” She heaves a big shrug. “Who’s to say? Wibbly wobbly timey space stuff.” She wiggles her fingers, making her many bracelets jangle.

Did my coworker just exact vegan food-poisoning revenge on my behalf? I don’t know whether to be grateful or terrified.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“If we’re both looking up at the same sky, how far apart can we REALLY be?”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Lonny finishes his drink and stands. “So what’s our plan?”

“You don’t have to go,” I tell him, shrugging out of Carmindor’s jacket. “I’m sort of going AWOL, so it’s not in your contract.”

“Then as far as I’m concerned, I’m off the clock,” he says, straightening his suit. “I can do whatever I want with my time, and I want to help you out. So what’s the plan?”

“First,” I say, “to the vending machines. With all this good luck, they gotta have an Orange Crush.”

And holy gods of soda, Batman, by the glowing light of the great vending machines on the third floor, I spot a beautiful Orange Crush button, and when I push it an orange bottle rolls out. I crack the seal and drink to the sweet, sweet taste of victory.

“That’s your plan?” Lonny says. “To drink a soda?”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Hey, you’re the chick in my homeroom, yeah?”

“And you are holding up the line,” she replies.

He looks behind him. “There’s no one here.”

She smiles a tight-lipped smile. “Which means you’re scaring the customers away. Now run along. Go chase tail somewhere else.”

Chloe squints at her. “Excuse you, who do you think you are?”

My coworker feigns shock. “I’m sorry, I didn’t introduce myself, did I?” Then she pauses for a long, long moment as they wait for her to introduce herself. Finally, Sage goes, “Oh, I’m not going to.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Gail and Lonny find me as I’m tugging on my shirt. I can’t wait until my clothes start fitting normal again and aren’t uncomfortably tight around the chest. I can’t wait to go back to all the familiar comics T-shirts that don’t fit me at this bulked-out size.

“Well?” Gail says. “How is it? How do you feel?”

“I can eat bacon again!” I yell, throwing up a fist. “All the bacon! Bacon or bust!”

“Yes!” Gail cheers. “After your promo shoots, you absolutely can!”

My cries of glee turn into an actual sob. I quickly shove my face into my arm. Thank god it’s just Gail.

She pats me on the shoulder. “I know,” she says. “But you’ll get to have it soon, and then—”

“No.” I swallow and shake my head, wiping my eyes with the back of my hand. “It’s not the bacon.” I mean, it is but it’s also not. I’m overcome right now with everything. These last few months leading up to the shoot, the mounting pressure, the twenty-three days of high stress and rabbit food and Elle. All of it. “Why does it have to be so hard?”

“Getting a six pack?”

I give her a feeble smile. “I am more than my body, thank you.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Electrolyte water tastes as bland as my soul feels.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Holy shit,” she says. “I’m in nerd heaven.”

“Oh, young Padawan,” I tell her, waving my hand toward the room, “everything the light touches is our kingdom. Let’s go explore it.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella