Holly Robinson > Quotes

“The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.”
― Holly Robinson, Sleeping Tigers

“Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.”
― Holly Robinson, Sleeping Tigers

“Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.”
― Holly Robinson

“Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.”
― Holly Robinson

“Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?”
― Holly Robinson, Sleeping Tigers

“Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce “only” art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority.”
― Holly Robinson

“People think they have to physically die before going to heaven or starting new lives, depending on their religions. The truth is that you can start a new life anytime you choose, as easily as waking from a dream.”
― Holly Robinson, Folly Cove

“Nobody outside a marriage can really know what’s happening on the inside of it.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged,” Peter said.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“nobody escapes this sick feeling that comes with discovering, over and over again, that the people you love are not who you thought they were.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“The tide will come in and there won’t be any more footprints. It’s like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can’t do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.”
― Holly Robinson, Folly Cove

“So exhausting, the whole business of motherhood. It was a business, too, complete with compromises and disappointing returns for your investments, with budgets and schedules and task lists and surly underlings.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Don’t spend your whole life waiting for someday to come,” he’d told Gigi on that trip. “You never know when you’re going to run out of time.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“She was beginning to think that the death of somebody you loved was like throwing rocks in a pond. Piles and piles of rocks: the ripples kept on spreading, disrupting the smooth surface of your life long after you’d lost track of where, exactly, the rocks went into the water.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“She supposed it was a universal truth that mothers, after tearing out their hair and tacking their raw beating hearts to the outsides of their clothing for anyone to see, were given no warning that some-day their baby-holding days would be over.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Being a mother was like being a ship’s figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island