Robyn Schneider Quotes

I finally got up around noon, after having decided that, as far as monogamous relationships go, I could probably do worse than marrying my bed.

Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

There was no half-assing a descent into hell.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

You in for Chipotle tomorrow? Taco Tuesday, gotta get some tac and guac!" "No one calls it that." I shook my head, grinning. It

Breathing: the miracle cure everyone's been looking for." -Lane-

I shrugged and waited for the doors to close before sliding my arm around her waist.

Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease.

It' so funny how small moments can ruin everything.

Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy.

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.

You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy.

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year

Three more fireworks shot up over the freeway, contorting into purple stars as they burst against the dissipating smoke.

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry.

History is filled with fictional people.

Achievement unlocked.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

But second chances aren't forever Even miracles have an expiration date.

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

Sillage, I thought. The lingering impression of a kiss having ended.

Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

The perfect soundtrack for my personal hell.

So where are we going?"
"Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception.

The life you pan isn't the life that happens again

You can always tell when it's Friday. There's an excitement specific to Fridays, coupled with relief that another week has passed

I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?"
"Not particularly.

We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference.

I almost wished he'd debated Cassidy in her ridiculous Harry Potter costume, so she could've wiped the smirk off his muggle face.

You're better off without me.
And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

I shook my head. "No, I mean Animal Farm. You know: 'Some animals are more equal than other animals.

I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

Sorry,' I apologized, realizing she was the sort of girl who got upset when someone used an unfamiliar word, rather than learning what it meant.

A snowman in a town where it didn't snow, made by a boy who couldn't wait to leave, and given to a girl who had never belonged.

The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything.

She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me.

Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be.

By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself.

The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us.

It had hurt to accept what was wrong with me, but it hurt even more to have hope.

It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.

Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.

But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter, I informed him.

She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

But I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence ...

But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for the rate of acceleration ...

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered.
"Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

We're like a positively charged molecule, the rate we're attracting tragedy.

So anyway, I'm sorry I was a dick.'
'It's fine,' I said.
'No, shut up, I'm atoning.

No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.

Now hurry up. We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all the difference.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

Come on, Cooper, we're going. Cassidy doesn't want to talk to us right now because she's mad I figured out why we broke up.

Art is pain. And so is life.

I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced "vitamin" the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants.

I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

Cassidy sat down next to me, her dress teasing me as it fluttered in the breeze.

I had a massive bed at home, and I loved her dearly. She was my queen, and I was her loyal subject.

Ain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after.

I don't know which is worse," Cassidy mused, "when people laugh at things that aren't funny, or when they don't laugh at things that are.

Actually, I was trying to figure out if we were on a date, albeit one that had started at eight thirty in the morning.

Omigod, I'm so bored I could shoot myself in the head with a knife.

Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

Ever wanted to make out in an elevator?" I asked, grinning.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet.

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

Where do you learn this stuff?" "Don't you ever get bored?" Cassidy asked. "Yeah, but I don't Google 'German insults.'" "Why not? It's fascinating.

We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.

We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.

No one wants to get hurt."
" Well, maybe not, but sometime's it's worth it.

You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool