Robin York Quotes

#1. If you want to say Fuck you, West, go ahead and say it.

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#2. Love is what fucks people up. Love is the undertow.

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#3. With West, I picked deep and then deeper. I picked all the way, hot and cold, good and bad, dark and light.

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#4. Be careful what you put on the Internet.' I've heard it hundreds of times. 'Be careful what you do in this digital age. Don't let yourself be made a victim, because if you do, it's your fault. Your mistake.

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#5. When you surround yourself with lies, all the real things start to break.

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#6. Keeping secrets is exhausting. When your whole life turns into a secret,

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#7. My heart is so light, I think it might be made out of air. It might float up and escape through the gap between my front teeth.

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#8. I didn't plan this, but her lips shape the welcome I've been waiting for my whole life, her arms are the anchor I need, her body is my home.

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#9. I just know that when she looks up, the tears make her eyes shine, and that's where the stars are.

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#10. What am I supposed to do about you? I think you'd better tell me. Caro, because I don't have a fucking clue.

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#11. Caroline's being the leader - it doesn't mean I'm her flunky. It doesn't diminish me. It's just who she is.

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#12. For the record, Caro?" "Yeah?" "Hard as a fucking rock.

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#13. When you've got a shot at deeper, you have to fist your hands in its T-shirt and pull it closer. Tug until fabric rips. Yank at it, reel it in until it's naked up against your belly and you're starving and full, desperate and satiated, dizzy and grounded.

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#14. I have what it takes to claim what I want.

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#15. I think, fleetingly, that the reason I don't need vengeance is that I have love. Vengeance doesn't give you anything. It doesn't fill you up or soothe you, satisfy you or change you. And

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#16. I wonder about my sister Janelle, too, who does know and wrote me this email - this long, long email that I had to close and not look at, because the first paragraph contained the words 'I forgive you', and I don't want anyone's forgiveness.

I'm not the one who has to be forgiven.

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#17. And after it's all said and done and you get released, I want you to find Caroline and take care of her for me. Take good care of her. I know you can't talk right now, but you promise me just the same. She's gonna need you.

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#18. Because I don't think you ever tell anybody the truth. You're awake at two in the morning. You look like shit. You're exhausted. When I invite you in here, when I ask you how it's going, you think I'm going to fucking buy it that you're fine? You think that's what I want you to say?

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#19. Because I'm trying to notice, these days, when I'm making shit harder than it has to be. I'm trying to notice when there's something I want and I'm throwing obstacles up in front of it for no reason at all.

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#20. Don't wait for me," he whispers, and he kisses me again. "I don't want you to wait.

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#21. You're mine. He hurt you. I want to hurt him.

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#22. I was eighteen years old, and I thought I loved him. I should have known, but I didn't.
And I don't deserve to be abused for it. Judged for it. Called names.
I don't deserve to have my life ruined.

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#23. I want you, and I don't know how to stop wanting you. I want to get deep inside you, and then deeper, until I'm so deep I don't even know what's me anymore and what's you.

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#24. I treated her like she belonged to me, even though I wouldn't have her and I wouldn't let her have me, either.

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#25. I've learned that when evil crawls out of a snake pit, you have to track it down and squash it. Then you have to assume it had babies and go looking for them too.

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#26. The world's not black and white," she tells me. "Life doesn't have good guys and bad guys or a beginning, middle, and end. Not while you're living it. It's just people doing stuff that's beautiful or stupid or somewhere in the middle.

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#27. I'll woo you until you can't walk sweetheart.

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#28. Yeah. It is. And if you're going to get out of bed and come here and talk to me, the bare minimum you can do is assume I'm not everybody. When I ask you, I actually want to know how you are.

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#29. What if you go after the love of your life and it ruins you?

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#30. I love you, and I'll miss you, and I want everything good for you, West. Everything wonderful. I want you to be happy. I want you to be whole.

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#31. Nice," he says. "I'm jealous."
"Of my nap?"
"Of your pillow.

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#32. He hates me because he can.

Because he's been allowed to.

Because he's male, he's well off, he's privileged, and the world lets him get away with it.

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#33. I don't want to go. Okay? That's my problem, Caroline. I never want to go.

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#34. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.

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#35. You arm yourself with love, friends, knowledge. You figure out who you are. What you want. You figure it out, and you go after it with everything you've got. And that means sometimes you have to let yourself be scared.

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#36. The world hasn't changed. It's full of men who hate women. It's stuffed to the gills with assholes who will mount an attack on a stranger just because she's female and they're small-minded monkey-boys with an inferiority complex.

The world hasn't changed, but I have.

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#37. Why are you taking her side?'
"I'm not. But if I find out you did this, don't expect me to support you just because you're my son. It's despicable, what happened to her."
'What she did is despicable.'
"What she did, she did with you. Now get dressed and get down there.

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#38. She holds herself like she matters, laughs like she cares, smiles like she's somebody.

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