Top 120 Robyn Schneider Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “It’ so funny how small moments can ruin everything.”

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53. “No, Charlotte, I’m not going to tell him,” I said drily. “The hymen of your integrity remains intact. Your precious jewel of a reputation is un-besmirched.”

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54. “So I went to sleep thinking of her, of the curve of her back in a light cotton dress, of her hair twisted up into its crown of braids, of her, leaping from the zenith of the plastic swing set and clearing the sandbox, turning a neat lap around the whole of Eastwood, California, while I stood there, trapped in the dreariness of it all, numbly watching.”

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55. “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.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “Ezra, you’re being ridiculous. I’m over it. That’s what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven’t you ever been friends with a girl before?”

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58. “We’re taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference.”

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59. “But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I’d wanted to keep.”

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60. “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.”

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61. “How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there’d be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages?”

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62. “I was listening to this playlist I’d made for her, headphones clamped over my ears. It was the story of us in music, except it wasn’t finished yet. I had this plan that I’d add a new song every month, so that the playlist would keep going as long as we did. It was sort of an electronic version of adopting a tree, which I’d done in the Carbon Footprint Awareness Club, but only because it had looked good, not because I’d actually wanted to. Keeping a playlist alive sounded much more me.”

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

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64. “But how do you know who’s a watcher and who’s a prisoner?” I asked, pulling into the empty parking lot. “That’s the point. Even the watchers are prisoners.”

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65. “You’ll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.”

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66. “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.”

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67. “It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.”

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

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69. “I have a theory that life is gathering the raw materials, and when we die, we get to make patterns out of our lives and relive them in whatever order we want. That way I can spend forever repeating the days when I was really happy, and never have to experience any of the sad days. So that’s how you live a really great life. You make sure you have enough good days that you want to go back to.”

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70. “We mourn the future because it’s easier than admitting that we’re miserable in the present.”

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71. “I just hadn’t wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.”

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72. “She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “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.”

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

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

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77. “The perfect soundtrack for my personal hell.”

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

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79. “The life you pan isn’t the life that happens again.”

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80. “They were cold from her diet soda, and it was over in an instant. But she didn’t move away. Instead, she sat down with her jeans touching mine and leaned her head on my shoulder. I could feel the flutter of her eyelashes against my neck with every blink, and we sat there for a while, breathing quietly together, listening to the thrum of traffic on University Drive and the gurgle of the creek.”

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81. “And the concept of an extraordinary means of preserving life, or a risky, optional treatment that doctors don’t recommend, is one I studied in graduate school and fascinates me to this day. It’s the idea that the patient ultimately controls their own fate, and that is the greatest freedom you can have within a system that sees patients as their diagnosis rather than as people.”

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82. “But we’re the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us.”

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83. “You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It’s only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely.” -Lane-.”

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84. “I was focusing on the now. But that didn’t mean I couldn’t still wonder about what came after.”

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85. “The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.”

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86. “Dude,” Austin said as we exited the freeway, “in fifty years, all of the old folks’ homes are going to be filled with seniors listening to Justin Bieber on the oldies station and talking about how movies used to be in two-D.”

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

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

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

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90. “We’re like a positively charged molecule, the rate we’re attracting tragedy.”

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91. “There was no half-assing a descent into hell.”

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92. “I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone’s gaze to follow you through the hallways as though you were marked by tragedy and no longer belonged. And I could understand why she hadn’t wanted that.”

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93. “Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we’ve had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we’d like, but that we’re the ones who are rolling them.”

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

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95. “People are afraid of us. We’re their monsters. Except they’re the ones who are afraid of what they don’t understand. They’re the ones who ruin everything.”

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96. “Two pathologies diverged in a yellow wood,” Nick said, using his Mock Trial voice. “And I, I took the one less traveled.”

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97. “She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee.”

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

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

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100. “Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year.”

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