Robin > Robin's Quotes

“Love for him doesn't listen to logic, practicality, or consequence. It's a lot like him in that way, our love. It wants what it wants, when it wants it. And when in wants, it needs.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Alone, we’re us: an innocent secret made of bad habits spread across his bed.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I love you more than she does, cocaine whispers.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You have my heart. There’s nothing else.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“If he’s in love with me, why does he need her? I’m here. I’m love. What is she?”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“She’s the only thing worth anything in my life.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“She’s the friend my sister needed, the daughter my mom wanted, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the fucking reason my heart beats." - Dusty”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I love your heart,” he tells me, making it beat. “And your heart loves me.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“It feels immense, whatever this is. Like a cliff, but also like home base – unstable, but essential.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love may be a battlefield, but we’re not doing any wrong. We’re kids in a crowd on the top of the world: high, wild, and innocent.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I feel kind of safe when I'm with him. I know he'd protect me with his life, from anyone and anything, but he can't and he doesn't protect me from himself.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Our love is not perfect. We are fucked-up and bleeding, but neither one of us is powerful enough to walk away from it like we should.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is a strawberry blonde liar, tease-baby, princess-girl torture.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You haven't seen crazy, baby.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love turns blind eye. And it's unpredictable.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I’ve been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we’re a walking untruth — solely made from love.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He’s absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“All three of them hold the smoke in their lungs, coming a little closer, a little closer, and a little closer, until they are right in front of my face. Thomas holds up his hand, counting: one, two … On three they blow smoke in my face. I gasp. They do it four more times.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You’re my safe spot. You have my heart. There’s nothing else.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“We’re attached in ways I can’t comprehend. While everyone else expects me to fuck up … she just loves me. And I’m reckless enough to let her.

She’s my softer side, and I’m her motherfucking monster.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is a fighting a losing battle.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Don’t you get it, baby?”
“What’s there to get?” she asks.
“That I love you.”
“Well, you have a shitty way of showing it.
I smirk. “That doesn’t make it any less true.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You said you loved my belly button,” I remind him. “You said ‘love,’ Thomas. Love,” I drag the word out. “Does that mean you love me?”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City