Rioghnach Robinson > Quotes

“Sometimes a book forms such a foundational part of you that to meet somebody else who loves it, who really cares about it, feels like stumbling into a stranger in another country who comes from your hometown.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words: A Novel

“This is how it felt, then, to love someone: To sacrifice clarity. To let go the illusion of objectivity. To give every word the benefit of the doubt.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words

“Hope laid a finger on my heart.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words

“I’d known for a long time that the most connected people would ever feel to me was through my writing. I wasn’t really afraid of dying alone, only of dying without having done the best I could. I thought of this more often than was probably normal, lying awake in my apartment, considering what I would leave behind if I died in my sleep.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words

“It's easier to keep believing what you already believe than to absorb new information and react to it, and it's easier to keep scrolling than to put down your phone, and it's easier to keep gliding along any frictionless surface because that's a comforting state. People have such a strong aversion to disruption, even when what they're going through is actually so much worse than change.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words

“... even if my career ends tomorrow, I'll still be proud to have spent my life building it. Something doesn't have to last forever to matter.”
― Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words