Robyn Blaber > Robyn's Quotes

“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.”
― Natsumi Ando, Kitchen Princess, Vol. 05

“He prayed for her, and she prayed for him.
One needs to pray, in a world without a god.”
― Hiroya Oku, Gantz/35

“My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes.”
― Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life