Damali

“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“But I know now that isn’t true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning of The Great Gatsby is by a writer who doesn’t exist. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary—made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn’t whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it’s whether or not you want to.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything