Rob Davis > Quotes

“Everything is made, but only people make things. I mean, how can a thing exist if it isn’t made ? How can a shape be a shape if it isn’t shaped ?”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn’t.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“We appear to have found a place where safe and dangerous are the same thing.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“Nothing always means something.”
― Rob Davis, The Can Opener’s Daughter

“A mother should sacrifice herself. The world is a happy place when it can sacrifice mothers on the altar of unconditional love. . . .

I can take the blame. All the blame! I'm designed for it.

I'm like the village witch who gets burned when the child gets sick or the crops fail . . . If you can't blame the weather, blame the mother. Welcome to womanhood.”
― Rob Davis, The Can Opener’s Daughter

“Truth is overrated.”
― Rob Davis

“The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“It feels like cheating to look at a person when they’re sleeping, Like you can see their innocent self.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“Beyond the black is the light.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“What does natural mean?
Means non-artificial. Made by nature.
But nature can't make things. It's not a person.
Nature is the things that aren't made by people.
But we're made by people, so what does that make us? Are we artificial?”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y’rself from any system of control is to do something useless.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven

“Making sense is overrated. It's just confirming what people already think. Making new sense is more important.”
― Rob Davis, The Can Opener’s Daughter

“Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.”
― Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven