Robyn Schneider Quotes

#1. I had a massive bed at home, and I loved her dearly. She was my queen, and I was her loyal subject.

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#2. We're like a positively charged molecule, the rate we're attracting tragedy.

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

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. One thing I've realized about new places is that they're like jeans. Sure, they might fit in, but they're not comfortable. They need time to be broken in

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#8. Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

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#9. So," I said as Cassidy and I headed toward Mr. Moreno's room, "I didn't see any secret messages last night."
"I didn't want to be predictable," Cassidy retorted. "But at least now I know you're paying attention.

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#10. Omigod, I'm so bored I could shoot myself in the head with a knife.

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

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. But second chances aren't forever Even miracles have an expiration date.

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#15. This was one of the last weekends before we'd be the seniors, and I was thinking about what that meant. About how these rituals of prom, the luau, and graduation that we'd watched for years were suddenly personal.

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#16. Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

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#17. 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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#18. History is filled with fictional people.

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#19. Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy.

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#20. But I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence ...

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#21. Sorry,' I apologized, realizing she was the sort of girl who got upset when someone used an unfamiliar word, rather than learning what it meant.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything.

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#25. So anyway, I'm sorry I was a dick.'
'It's fine,' I said.
'No, shut up, I'm atoning.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. There was no half-assing a descent into hell.

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

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

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

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#32. But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories.

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

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#34. 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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#35. If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.

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#36. 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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#37. I almost wished he'd debated Cassidy in her ridiculous Harry Potter costume, so she could've wiped the smirk off his muggle face.

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

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

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

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#43. You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane-

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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

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#47. 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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#48. I wondered 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. When

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

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#51. 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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#52. She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me.

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#53. Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

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

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#56. 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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#57. I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.

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#58. Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. "No, no, bad portal," he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. "Stop - evil - eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!

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

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#60. Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered.
"Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

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

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#63. I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone's gaze to follow you through the hallways as though you were marked by tragedy and no longer belonged. And I could understand why she hadn't wanted that.

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

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#65. 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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#66. No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.

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

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

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?"
"Not particularly.

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#72. It had hurt to accept what was wrong with me, but it hurt even more to have hope.

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#73. Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease.

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

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

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#77. I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. The perfect soundtrack for my personal hell.

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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. So where are we going?"
"Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception.

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#86. The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. Ever wanted to make out in an elevator?" I asked, grinning.

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

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

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

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#94. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect.

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#95. 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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#96. Actually, I was trying to figure out if we were on a date, albeit one that had started at eight thirty in the morning.

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

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#99. 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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#100. 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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