Rob Browatzke > Rob's Quotes

“He could either be who everyone wanted him to be—and be miserable—or he could just ignore people who hated him, be himself, and be happy.”
― Kenneth Logan, True Letters from a Fictional Life: A Debut Young Adult Novel About Secret Letters and the Journey to Authentic Self-Discovery

“You undid me, Kurl, in more ways than one.”
― Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes

“to be on the fringes of an already marginalized subculture is simply lonely.”
― Teddy Wayne, Apartment

“Sometimes the only way to start over in life is to burn down the house.”
― Teddy Wayne, Apartment

“He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“This is how easy it is to walk out of a life. I’d always wondered, and now I knew.”
― Bryan Washington, Lot

“Symbolism gives folks hope. But I’ve come to learn that symbolism is a threat to actual change—it’s a chance for those in power to say, “Look how far you have come” rather than admitting, “Look how long we’ve stopped you from getting here.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren't Blue

“Don’t leave five minutes before the miracle?”
― Rick R. Reed, The Q

“You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of both and occasionally good things pop up in the middle of tragedy, but they still don't make the tragedy go away. They can't protect you. They're just light. But what you didn't say is that sometimes, certain people can be a light in the darkness. There are some people in this world who are worth saving when other people decide they shine the wrong kind of light on the wrong kind of things. You have been and will always be my light in the darkness.”
― Christopher Rice