A Boy Called Rainbow Quotes

“I may not be able to hear you, but there’s a language of love between us that needs no words. You and me, Miles… we don’t need words at all. We just need us. Please just let us be us.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“Some of us weren’t made for greatness. Some of us were made for goodness… and that’s good enough.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“If I’m ever going to be a fool for love again, I only want to do it with someone who loves me right back.” Rainbow smiled, then laughed, then slowly… softly… with tears streaming down his face, he spoke aloud to me for the first time. “I can be a fool for love too. I can be your fool. I can love you back.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“It was a message: You’re already a masterpiece to me. I’ll make you look as beautiful as I see you.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“He watched me as I read aloud— “I love watching my creations swim and fly. When they move, I can hear the wind that lifts them into the sky. I can hear the waves that guide them to the shore. I can hear the storm that makes them want to build a home, a nest, a shelter from whatever dangers may come.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“Imagine a world where fake politeness and small-talk and chitchat didn’t exist. Imagine a world where people only ever spoke their truth. Imagine a world where people said exactly what they were feeling inside… because nothing else mattered.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“From that day forward he insisted on being called Rainbow… forging a new identity of his own… wearing the name like a badge of honor, a mark of survival… and a reminder to never again allow himself to be the victim of someone else’s cruelty.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“there are more ways to view the world than simply through our own experiences; that we always had the chance to live more than just one life, even if we were simply glancing through someone else’s eyes.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“Seeing the look on his face, the twinkle of pride and love and loss in his eyes, was like pushing a broken key through a lock to open a door. I wondered how many other locks inside Rainbow had been intentionally broken so nobody could get in… and for how long?”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“You won’t try to sell Odette’s paintings, will you? You’ll get me a lawyer, won’t you? You promised, didn’t you?”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“All I’m saying is, you spend a lot of time wandering around without a shirt on.” He wrote— You’re lucky I’ve got jeans on. Normally I paint naked.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow

“You never said anything about Rainbow being deaf.” “I didn’t? That must be because it shouldn’t matter.”
― Robin Knight, A Boy Called Rainbow