Robin > Robin's Quotes

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“sometimes I feel my tether is too short.” “You will lose that tether soon enough, and then someday when you are in a heap of hurt and trouble, you are going to reach for it and wish your mama was on the other end.”
― Ronald Yates, Finding Billy Battles

“In Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”
― Laura Rose, The Passion of Marie Romanov

“Michael is easier to understand—he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable—to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy”
― Mary Jo Putney, Thunder and Roses

“These past years have caused my heart to become untethered. There are no more scraped knees to kiss, soft curls to smooth back, hungry minds to feed with an opened book, a discovery in the forest, a speck of water on a piece of glass under the microscope. And there is no warm flesh to reach for in the middle of the night when the light of the full moon breaking in through the window causes one’s eyelids to flutter open.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“She had joined that sad sisterhood called disappointed women; a larger class than many deem it to be, though there are few of us who have not seen members of it. Unhappy wives; mistaken or forsaken lovers; meek souls, who make life a long penance for the sins of others; gifted creatures kindled into fitful brilliancy by some inner fire that consumes but cannot warm. These are the women who fly to convents, write bitter books, sing songs full of heartbreak, act splendidly the passion they have lost or never won; who smile, and try to lead brave uncomplaining lives, but whose tragic eyes betray them, whose voices, however sweet or gay, contain an undertone of hopelessness, whose faces sometimes startle one with an expression which haunts the observer long after it is gone.”
― Patricia O'Brien, The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton

“Her mother’s private feelings, she would realize later (with no small amount of shame), were of no real concern to her. She only cared about what her mother gave to her and what she withheld.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“It’s not until a woman gets loose and comfortable inside her own skin that she’s comfortable wrapping it around a man.” Mina”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a trusty tree. But first it bent, And then it broke And let me down as my love did me. —”The Water Is Wide,” traditional folk song”
― Jill Barnett, Wild

“There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we’re lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“possible. Thank you for allowing my stories into your lives. “I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder

“The child was happiest left to play alone, entering a world of her own creation where fairies sang, waited on by fleets of magical servants.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime