Romina Garber > Romina's Quotes

“When we open our minds too wide, we risk closing them.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“You’re an everlasting flame that can’t be put out.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“I’m empty. I’m being asked to give everything, when I have nothing left.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“Scientists say that somewhere in the universe, every event under the sun repeats itself an infinite number of times in every possible variation.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“Even in an abstract dimension, ideas built on flawed foundations will fail.”
― Romina Russell

“I won't stay silent anymore, not when speaking out can make a difference.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“And in a universe of people that spend their todays searching for tomorrows, hope is the most powerful weapon you can have.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“When we pass judgment, we hit a dead end. When we analyze something with an open mind, we can explore a concept into infinity.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“Sometimes the best way to love someone is to let them go”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“Wisdom lies not in facts themselves but in our understanding of them”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I've realized the future is different for each of us. For some it's fifty years, for others it's ten months, and sometimes it's just a few minutes. I don't know how long mine is, but I know how I want to spend it.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“Humans--in their infinite injustice--have wronged you, but you'll find your rightful place again. Your light shines too brightly not to be a beacon for others.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“There aren't twelve types of people in the universe--there are two... The ones that stand still and try to fit in... and the ones that go seek out where they belong.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“We can't give up on people anymore. Even if most react like you say, some won't. So we start with the hearts we can change. That's how we make a difference--we begin with a ripple to end with a wave.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“Those in power are so afraid of losing it, they will do anything to keep the world under their control. Even when 'anything' means ignoring dangerous truths that threaten to grow more powerful the longer they're unaddressed.”
― Romina Russell, Wandering Star

“I really don't like it when you make me feel guilty for being who I am, Nish. Some stuff just doesn't come in the Cancrian package. It's not fair that you always want me to be more like you.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“After all, friends make for frightening foes.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“I have always found it interesting that the symbol for Justice is a set of scales; the implication being that to achieve perfect harmony, good and bad must balance each other out. Rather than eradicating one, both must exist in equal quantities.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“You're young, and the young tend to take everything personally. But it's imperative that you learn to separate self from duty.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“Freedom shouldn't move like an arrow, in a singular direction. It should flow like an ocean, swallowing the whole horizon.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“In fact, sometimes our strongest-held beliefs can become our worst enemies.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“A powerful man wants people to dream of him, but a leader wants people to dream of themselves.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“In a way, my definition of home has shifted. My soul no longer feels anchored to a piece of land or a body of water. It's now tied to all the people I love, across the Zodiac.”
― Romina Russell, Black Moon

“Bad things have happened to you, but when it came time to act - when you were tested - you chose to forgive. Even the person who hurt you most.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac