Robin > Robin's Quotes

“Oh, you sweet sheltered thing,” she said. “You clearly have severely underdeveloped gaydar.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I had this feeling suddenly. I get this feeling a lot, but I don’t know if there’s one word for it. It’s not nervous or sad or even lonely. It’s all of that, and then a bit more. The feeling is I don’t belong here. I don’t know how I got here, and I don’t know how long I can stay before everyone else realizes that I am an impostor. I am a fraud.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Embellish your flaws,” he says softly. “They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I’m blushing fiercely, wondering why embarrassment always feels like ice water in my veins. It’s like all of my insides are freezing even though my skin is burning hot too hot.

I hate this.
I hate this feeling.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Mass chaos is in my future.
And I’m leaving my gloves behind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.
It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes by your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can't breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out of every corner. It's a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you're struggling to stand up.
You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin. You doubt you doubt you doubt.
do I
don't I
should I
why won't I
And even when you're ready to let go. When you're ready to break free. When you're ready to be brand-new. Loneliness is an old friend stand beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough never enough never ever enough.
Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion.
Sometimes it just won't let go.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Life isn’t fair,” I said. “It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always
going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll
push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken
away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something
and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try
to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your
hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“The world breaks little girls. It stomps out our will, our joy, our curiosity—and replaces them with disdain, cynicism, and the need to fit into neat and tiny boxes. I learned that young, in kindergarten, when the other kids called Stella a show-off for raising her hand during class, or when the boys in first grade said I was bossy for leading a reading circle. When Stella and I would overhear the other moms at the Elite Youth Runner’s Club: The Steckler sisters are just a little much. That’s how we were described while the boys were sprinting around the playground kicking and screaming, breaking and biting. The world doesn’t celebrate girls who take up space, who demand to be heard, who are just a little much.”
― Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

“The world hadn’t yet told us that little girls don’t fight with fists, but with words. Laughable now, though, after everything that’s happened. The idea that girls don’t fight.”
― Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

“For every life I can’t save during my shift, one more drop of blood becomes a part of me. No matter how many times I wash my hands, our martyrs’ blood seeps beneath my skin, into my cells. By now it’s probably encoded in my DNA.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“This is the land of your father, and his father before him. Your history is embedded in this soil. No country in the world will love you as yours does.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“It reminds me that as long as the lemon trees grow, hope will never die.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“I’ll have to say it over and over and over, now. If I live, I’ll be full of nothing but regrets and apologies, because I’m the last one. The Sycamore Platoon is gone, Miss Winnow. We woke up this morning to one world, and now the sun is setting on another.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I am so afraid. And yet how I long to be vulnerable and brave when it comes to my own
heart”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Sometimes,” Iris began, “I don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“A wish was nothing but a hopeful regret, and here, at the end of my life, I had none.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“There is one thing I’d like to ask of you,” I started. “One small favor.”
“Anything.” He said it immediately, unconditionally.
“Will you stay with me till the end comes? Will you sit with me in the dark?”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“I dreamed of a day when girls could wear lace and makeup—or no makeup at all and don burlap sacks if they desired—to their chosen profession without it being deemed inappropriate”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Over everything, I choose you”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless