Robyn Schneider Quotes

#1. Ever wanted to make out in an elevator?" I asked, grinning.

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#2. One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet.

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#3. But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either

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#4. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?"
"Not particularly.

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#5. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

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#6. It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that.

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#7. I shrugged and waited for the doors to close before sliding my arm around her waist.

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#8. We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.

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#9. Where do you learn this stuff?" "Don't you ever get bored?" Cassidy asked. "Yeah, but I don't Google 'German insults.'" "Why not? It's fascinating.

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#10. Ezra, you're being ridiculous. I'm over it. That's what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven't you ever been friends with a girl before?

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#11. I shook my head. "No, I mean Animal Farm. You know: 'Some animals are more equal than other animals.

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#12. Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.

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#13. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

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#14. Come on, Cooper, we're going. Cassidy doesn't want to talk to us right now because she's mad I figured out why we broke up.

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#15. You're better off without me.
And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

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#16. For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something simply because she was pretty, and that I didn't want to be around when she discovered it didn't.

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#17. We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference.

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#18. But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I'd wanted to keep.

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#19. That's not to say we were totally innocent of any public displays of affection; there was some hand-holding and the occasional hurried good-bye kiss on even days, when we had different sixth periods.

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#20. You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

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#21. Dude," Austin said as we exited the freeway, "in fifty years, all of the old folks' homes are going to be filled with seniors listening to Justin Bieber on the oldies station and talking about how movies used to be in two-D.

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#22. I suppose she didn't think anyone was looking and had let her guard down, the way you did in an empty room. The way I did when I closed the blinds and stared up at the ceiling fan above my bed, equally fascinated and horrified by the thoughts racing through my brain.

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#23. Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

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#24. I didn't want to kiss you good-bye - that was the trouble - I wanted to kiss you good night - and there's a lot of difference. - ERNEST HEMINGWAY Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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#25. We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

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#26. We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

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#27. You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

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#28. No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday

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#29. But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for the rate of acceleration ...

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#30. So where are we going?"
"Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception.

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#31. See, that's a coffee drinker's problem,' Marina said. 'Meanwhile, I'm perfectly fine with tea bags.'
'I love that there's such a rivalry,' said Charlie. 'It's like, leaf watt versus bean water, you know?

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#32. You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

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#33. If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

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#34. I learned three things that night: 1) sharing a bed is't nearly as intimate as making out in a too-small back seat, 2) inexplicably, some bras unhook in the front, 3) Cassidy hadn't known I was Jewish.

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#35. The perfect soundtrack for my personal hell.

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#36. The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle.

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#37. I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

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#38. A snowman in a town where it didn't snow, made by a boy who couldn't wait to leave, and given to a girl who had never belonged.

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#39. The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything.

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#40. How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there'd be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages?

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#41. You can always tell when it's Friday. There's an excitement specific to Fridays, coupled with relief that another week has passed

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#42. I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

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#43. You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no one gets the joke.

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#44. I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.

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#45. I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter, I informed him.

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#46. By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself.

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#47. I thought about the metal in my knee, replacing this piece of me that was missing, that no longer worked. And it wasn't my heart, I kept telling myself. It wasn't my heart.

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#48. And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

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#49. That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

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#50. But second chances aren't forever Even miracles have an expiration date.

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#51. Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

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#52. You can sound your barbaric yawp over the rooftops ... or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ... or seize the day ... or sail away from the safe harbor ... or seek a newer world ... or rage against the dying of the light,

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#53. I'm going to be okay," Sadie promised as I left.
"I know you are," I said, except they were just empty hospital words, the kind that you wish were true becuase the alternative is too painful to bear.

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#54. Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

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#55. Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

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#56. This is so humiliating," I muttered as Cassidy wiggled out of her bra. "Well, it brings new meaning to the phrase 'booby trap,'" she teased, and we both laughed, a situation made infinitely more interesting due to the fact that she was topless.

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#57. The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

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#58. And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

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#59. Ain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

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#60. I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.

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#61. We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.

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#62. The world tends toward chaos, you know, Cassidy said. You could too. Just write down a made up name, or even a fictional character. And the next person who finds this geocache, it's as though things really hapened that way. You have to at least allow for the possibility of it.

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#63. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the

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#64. You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool

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#65. Cassidy sat down next to me, her dress teasing me as it fluttered in the breeze.

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#66. Art is pain. And so is life.

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#67. As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry.

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#68. There was no half-assing a descent into hell.

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#69. Delete," he said. "I keep telling you." But I couldn't. Even though I wasn't sure what the point was anymore. No one kept in touch, they just kept up. And then, when they couldn't keep up anymore, they forgot. I

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#70. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.

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#71. She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

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#72. You in for Chipotle tomorrow? Taco Tuesday, gotta get some tac and guac!" "No one calls it that." I shook my head, grinning. It

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#73. No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday

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#74. Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.

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#75. I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.

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#76. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

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#77. I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

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#78. She didn't add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine.

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#79. Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year

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#80. I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.

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#81. Ezra, the girl you're chasing after doesn't exist. I'm not some bohemian adventurer who takes you on treasure hunts and sends you secret messages. I'm this sad, lonely mess who studies too much and pushes people away and hides in her haunted house.

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#82. I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced "vitamin" the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants.

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#83. It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

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#84. Marina rolled her eyes. "Besides, I saw the way you were staring at each other during lunch. You tow are so completely Pride and Prejudice."
"You mean he'll scorn me for my family while convincing my sister's soul mate that he doesn't really love her?" I asked hopefully.

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#85. Not at all, I just don't understand how the Arch Alchemist became mortal all of a sudden."
"Because he split his soul into seven pieces and hid them all over Justice City," Toby retorted.
"You turned our comic book into a Harry Potter rip-off?" I spluttered.

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#86. Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

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#87. Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

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#88. I don't know which is worse," Cassidy mused, "when people laugh at things that aren't funny, or when they don't laugh at things that are.

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#89. Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.

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#90. You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.'
'Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally.

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#91. It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.

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#92. The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.

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#93. Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

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#94. No, Charlotte, I'm not going to tell him," I said drily. "The hymen of your integrity remains intact. Your precious jewel of a reputation is un-besmirched.

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#95. Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

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#96. Breathing: the miracle cure everyone's been looking for." -Lane-

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#97. She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.

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#98. It' so funny how small moments can ruin everything.

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#99. I finally got up around noon, after having decided that, as far as monogamous relationships go, I could probably do worse than marrying my bed.

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#100. Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

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