Top 50 Robin Roe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered... When you know you’re going to tell someone everything, you see your day through your eyes and theirs, as if they’re living it alongside you. But when you don’t, it isn’t only not seeing double – it’s not seeing at all. Because if they aren’t there, you aren’t either.”

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2. “Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.”

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3. “Because people heal a whole lot faster when they’re with someone who loves them.”

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4. “If I really had powers, I could turn off pain the way I can shut my eyes. But I can’t. I feel it. Skin doesn’t get thicker. Instead, it remembers.”

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5. “I used to think struggle was what aged you, but if that were the case, Julian should have been a hundred years old. Now I wonder if the opposite is true. Maybe instead of accelerating your age, pain won’t let you grow.”

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6. “She said no one is evil, only unhappy, and unhappiness festers inside like sores.”

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7. “Why is time like that? Why does it slow down in the places you don’t want it to, but it speeds away when you’re happy?”

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8. “She says some people have souls so big that they spread out, touching everyone they pass.”

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9. “Monday is like all Mondays. Like I’m sitting at the bottom of a pool, listening underwater to people living up above.”

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10. “I want my body to be mine again.”

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11. “I should be afraid, but I feel empty. I remember my father’s hands. My mother’s hands. What hands are meant to do.”

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12. “Minutes tick by and I keep sitting on the couch alone and drinking my soda, feeling so awkward I want to leave, but feeling so lonely that I can’t.”

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13. “It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.”

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14. “Superheroes aren’t real, and even if they were, they come too late.”

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15. “This part is hardest. A billion years of evolution tells your cells to run. But you can’t run. You have to turn around and face the desert wall.”

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16. “When you know you’re going to tell someone everything, you see your day through your eyes and theirs, as if they’re living it alongside you. But when you don’t, it isn’t only not seeing double – it’s not seeing at all. Because if they aren’t there, you aren’t either.”

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17. “When someone says something, they automatically know what to say back. But for me it’s as if the pathway between my brain and mouth is damaged, like a rare form of paralysis.”

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18. “I’m dizzy. I’m here. I’m alive.”

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19. “He was so stubborn, but maybe that’s a good thing to be – a force of will that doesn’t die no matter how many horrible things happen to you.”

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20. “I’m happy. And I see no reason to pretend I’m not.”

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21. “My mother once said that the planet was like an enormous womb, and every single one of us was a fetus. Death was nothing to be afraid of. It was just birth to another world, and someone would be waiting for us there.”

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22. “It’s like we’re back inside the center of the labyrinth and I’m struck with so much regret and so much love, it’s worse than a heart attack.”

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23. “You don’t really know people when your back is turned.”

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24. “Next time you have to hand something in, just tell me. I can proofread it or whatever.” I nod, but I know I won’t. If he’s being nice enough to offer, I should be nice enough to never do it.”

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25. “The wind picks up, but instead of putting his sweatshirt back on, he just fits the hood over his head. As he walks forward, it billows behind him like a cape.”

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26. “But whenever I would imagine leaving, I’d see the blue sky like the ocean – no walls or shore or end in sight. And I’d see myself disappear.”

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27. “That’s another thing. Boys don’t smile a lot. I’m not sure if they’re unhappy or if they’re just pretending to be unhappy. But Adam always looks kind.”

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28. “There was nowhere to go that me and the pain didn’t follow.”

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29. “I have this ache inside, like how you might feel if you slept through Christmas.”

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30. “My mother once said that the planet was like an enormous womb, and every single one of us was a fetus. Death was nothing to be afraid of. It was just birth to another world, and someone would be waiting for us there. Sometimes I try to see this, my mother and father as two newborns holding hands and ejected into this other world. There they are just beginning.”

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31. “Their eyes like safety nets, I can’t fall.”

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32. “Instead I feel something warm spread through my body. People I love will be watching me. Their eyes like safety nets, I can’t fall.”

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33. “She always wore dresses, and she was pretty like an angel or someone’s mother.”

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34. “Some words stay in your head long after they’re spoken.”

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35. “Sometimes when I can’t sleep and I’m trying to think good thoughts, I imagine the magical place between worlds, the place in the flash where Elian’s ship disappears before to reappears again. In that split second maybe time slows down, and he can see all the invisible places. And maybe, sometimes, he sees them.”

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36. “Wait, theater kids?” Camila sneers. “Careful, Camila.” Charlie laughs. “Adam was almost a theater kid.” “Yeah, maybe if I wasn’t so lazy.”

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37. “I walk the perimeter of the fence, and try to summon what I used to feel back when I thought I could bend time and spoons. I touch the red grains in the wood. I have a vague memory of doing that.”

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38. “But wanting isn’t the same as having.”

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39. “The things that hurt you, change you. And they can either make you better or make you worse.”

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40. “I know what I think, but people don’t want you to say what you think. They want you to say what they think. And knowing what that is isn’t easy.”

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41. “I really liked movies and books about people exploring new places. When I was little, I never wondered how I’d do it. I just knew one day I would go everywhere. But when you get older, you realise wanting isn’t the same as having. There are all those places you want to go, but it doesn’t mean you can actually get there.”

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42. “He’s smiling brightly, but I don’t really know what he’s thinking, because you can’t always believe smiles.”

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43. “There are different ways to help people, Adam. There are different ways to do good.”

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44. “For everyone else, talking just seems to come naturally. When someone says something, they automatically know what to say back. But for me it’s as if the pathway between brain and mouth is damaged, like a rare form of paralysis. I can’t speak, so instead I fiddle with the plastic tip of my shoelace.”

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45. “Pain fades but the memory of pain is infinite.”

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46. “Death was nothing to be afraid of. It was just birth to another world, and someone would be waiting for us there.”

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47. “Nothing means anything! People just go. They don’t finish. We don’t die after we complete some mission, we just die.”

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48. “I’m not sure why people want you to look at them when they’re angry with you. That’s when you want to look away the most.”

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49. “It seems unfair, the way unhappiness flows out of a person, just to ricochet.”

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50. “Not long ago, I told my son I love him so much that sometimes my chest fills up like it’s going to burst, and I have to take a deep breath. He responded, “That sounds like a medical condition.” Did I mention he’s a bit of a smart aleck?”

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