Robin Roe Quotes

It's like we're back inside the center of the labyrinth and I'm struck with so much regret and so much love, it's worse than a heart attack. ~ Robin Roe

Monday is like all Mondays. Like I'm sitting at the bottom of a pool, listening underwater to people living up above. ~ Robin Roe

I used to think struggle was what aged you, but if that were the case, Julian should have been a hundred years old. Now I wonder if the opposite is true. Maybe instead of accelerating your age, pain won't let you grow. ~ Robin Roe

Then as he's tucking me into bed, he's supposed to ask, How many stars?
On a great day I'm supposed to say nine or ten. But if it was amazing, the best day I ever had, I'm supposed to cheat and say something like ten thousand stars. ~ Robin Roe

I have this ache inside, like how you might feel if you slept through Christmas. ~ Robin Roe

It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered ~ Robin Roe

She says some people have souls so big that they spread out, touching everyone they pass ~ Robin Roe

My mother once said that the planet was like an enormous womb, and every single one of us was a fetus. Death was nothing to be afraid of. It was just birth to another world, and someone would be waiting for us there. ~ Robin Roe

When you know you're going to tell someone everything, you see your day through your eyes and theirs, as if they're living it alongside you. But when you don't, it isn't only not seeing double - it's not seeing at all. Because if they aren't there, you aren't either. ~ Robin Roe

But whenever I would imagine leaving, I'd see the blue sky like the ocean - no walls or shore or end in sight. And I'd see myself disappear. ~ Robin Roe

I know what I think, but people don't want you to say what you think. They want you to say what they think. And knowing what that is isn't easy. ~ Robin Roe

Sometimes when I can't sleep and I'm trying to think good thoughts, I imagine the magical place between worlds, the place in the flash where Elian's ship disappears before to reappears again. In that split second maybe time slows down, and he can see all the invisible places. And maybe, sometimes, he sees them. ~ Robin Roe

Hate ricochets, but kindness does too. ~ Robin Roe

Minutes tick by and I keep sitting on the couch alone and drinking my soda, feeling so awkward I want to leave, but feeling so lonely that I can't. ~ Robin Roe

The wind picks up, but instead of putting his sweatshirt back on, he just fits the hood over his head. As he walks forward, it billows behind him like a cape. ~ Robin Roe

Why is time like that? Why does it slow down in the places you don't want it to, but it speeds away when you're happy? ~ Robin Roe

When someone says something, they automatically know what to say back. But for me it's as if the pathway between my brain and mouth is damaged, like a rare form of paralysis. ~ Robin Roe

She said no one is evil, only unhappy, and unhappiness festers inside like sores. ~ Robin Roe

She always wore dresses, and she was pretty like an angel or someone's mother. ~ Robin Roe

If I really had powers, I could turn off pain the way I can shut my eyes. But I can't. I feel it. Skin doesn't get thicker. Instead, it remembers. ~ Robin Roe

I walk the perimeter of the fence, and try to summon what I used to feel back when I thought I could bend time and spoons. I touch the red grains in the wood. I have a vague memory of doing that. ~ Robin Roe

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Robin Hood was also a terrorist ― but he had some style and a little class. ~ Wilbur Smith

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! ~ Robin Williams

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine.

I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes.

I understand. I am the same about porcupines. ~ Robin Hobb

All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you. ~ Robin S. Sharma

The happiness you are searching for comes through reflecting on the worthy aims you are dedicated to achieving and then taking action daily to advance them. ~ Robin S. Sharma

By devoting yourself to continuous improvement and excellence in minor ways each day, your life really can transform. To ~ Robin S. Sharma

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything. ~ Robin Ince

Knowing how to quit is just as important as knowing how not to quit. You see, if I offer three hundred books to one person and this person does not read even one; if I give her knowledge and she refuses to apply; if I propose therapy but she refuses to accept it; Then, after dozens of forgiveness and failed promises, it is time to quit and let her go from my life. ~ Robin Sacredfire

Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom. ~ Robin Sharma

Paradoxically .. the very feminist movement that gave women more options also helped create pressure on many of us to be strong, successful, and independent - the kind of women who would theoretically be immune to any form of abuse from men. As a result, women who are in gaslighting and other types of abusive relationships may feel doubly ashamed: first, for being in a bad relationship, and second, for not living up to their self-imposed standards of strength and independence. ~ Robin Stern

Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining. ~ Chris Kelly

Some friends are asking me if I photoshop myself into pictures of different countries. I guess that along this road they'll soon be asking if I'm a holographic projection from a UFO in outer space. ~ Robin Sacredfire

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass. ~ Robin Williams

Going to fetch Uncle Analdas. Have you been by the Hill?"
Just left there," Robin answered. "Everybody's excited. Seems there's new Folks coming."
Yes, I know," cried Little Georgie eagerly. "I've just made a song about it. Wouldn't you like to hear it? It goes like -"
No, thanks," called Robin. ~ Robert Lawson

The interesting thing about reflecting on your death is that it reawakens you to what's truest about life. ~ Robin S. Sharma

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do. ~ Robin Trower

You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority. ~ Robin Sharma

With a gentle touch, she brushed the hair off his forehead. "I was sort of hoping you'd be a little more relaxed today."
He took her hand and kissed it.
"I'm very relaxed."
"Finally?" She raised her eyebrows and snuggled closer.
"You feel a little stiff."
And getting stiffer by the second. He had zero control around this woman. "We should probably do something about that. ~ Robin Bielman

Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you. ~ Robin S. Sharma

The teachers of the East say that every arrow that hits the bull's eye is the result of one hundred misses. ~ Robin S. Sharma

In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive! ~ Robin Rowles

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them. ~ Robin S. Sharma

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. ~ Robin S. Sharma

industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Like when everything flipped upside down and the scream of metal on metal exploded the silence and the world churned around me, ground over sky over ground over sky, and then, with a thunderous crack and a crunching of glass and steel, a twisted roof crushing me into a gutted floor, ground, I wasn't surprised. ~ Robin Wasserman

What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time? ~ Robin McKinley

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film. ~ Robin Williams

This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In ~ Robin Elizabeth

I love to speak to five people at the same time and make them pay attention to me while not allowing them to say a word. I answer them before they have a chance to speak. They then change their thoughts and I do it again. They feel both frustrated and hooked to the conversation. I feel both entertained and amused at their disbelief on what is occurring before their eyes. They cannot see that I'm communicating in three ways at the same time, while they're focused in one. And they think I'm smart because I talk too fast, while the truth is that they are not intelligent because they cannot see the obvious in front of their eyes. ~ Robin Sacredfire