Top 120 Robyn Schneider Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”

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2. “Start as you mean to go on.”

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3. “And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”

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4. “No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday.”

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5. “She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.”

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

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7. “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”

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8. “But second chances aren’t forever Even miracles have an expiration date.”

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9. “And being healthy, being okay, wouldn’t feel normal at all. It would feel incredible.”

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10. “I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.”

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

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12. “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.”

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13. “You see? You’re just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other’s lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.”

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14. “Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I’d learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn’t exactly overlap with my friends’.”

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

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16. “I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we’d gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.”

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

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18. “There’s a word for it,” she told me, “in French, for when you have a lingering impression of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explodes and lights up the smoke from the ones before it.”

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19. “Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me,” Phoebe said. “But the only thing Luke’s afraid of losing is power.”

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20. “Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. “No, no, bad portal,” he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. “Stop – evil – eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!”

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21. “We move through each other’s lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.”

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22. “I read once that we’re all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we’re made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.”

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23. “Grief is a strange thing. I’d thought, for the longest time, that being at Latham was a constant grieving for an answer. Live or die. Return home or succumb. But it wasn’t grief at all. It was fear.”

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

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25. “You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you’ve just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no one gets the joke.”

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26. “I still think that everyone’s life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst – the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere – it’s what comes after that determines the result.”

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27. “They say your skin is the largest organ in your body, but I’d never really appreciated that before, the way his fingertips slowly tracing the curve of my jaw could travel down the entire length of my body, covering me in goose bumps. The way he could make me feel flushed with something that wasn’t fever.”

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28. “We’re living tragedies, just passing time ’til our funerals.”

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29. “My miracle wasn’t a cure. It was a second chance. But second chances aren’t forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.”

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30. “There’s difference between being dead and dying. We’re all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.”

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

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32. “Art is pain. And so is life.”

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33. “You really know how to pick ’em, don’t you?” Toby joked. “I think I’m cursed.”

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34. “I read once that we’re all just dead stars looking back up at the sky... I don’t know why I was thinking about that, but it made a lot of sense right then that stars glow so brightly in their instant of death...”

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

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

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37. “You see? You’re just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other’s lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we’re the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I’d rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.”

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

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39. “I love that there’s such a rivalry. It’s like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? – Charlie.”

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40. “Nothing lasts, even this awesome floaty feeling. We all reach for whatever we think is going to dull the pain, and sometimes we don’t even want whatever it is, we just want to not be miserable, you know?”

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41. “I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day, I’ll have a body full of cells that were never sick. sbut it also means that the parts of me that knee and loved Sadie will disappear. I’ll still remember loving her, but it’ll be a different me who loved her. And maybe that is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “The truth of it was, I’d been running the wrong experiment my whole life, and while Cassidy was the first person to realize, she didn’t add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine. Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”

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44. “The world tends toward chaos, you know,” Cassidy said. “I’m just helping it along.”

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45. “But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories.”

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46. “Sometimes you look around at your life and you see a ghost of a different one. It watches from the wings like an understudy that knows it won’t go on. The play unfolds, and eventually, when you glance backstage, that life you knew is gone, and no one watching ever knew it was there at all.”

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47. “That’s a terrible word,” I teased. “It’s like an excuse for holding onto the past.” “Well, I think it’s beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.”

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48. “It’ so funny how small moments can ruin everything.”

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49. “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.”

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

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