86 Quotes by Robin Benway

He looked like a stranger, and then he met my glance, and it was like I had never stopped seeing him.

Don’t you get it? That’s what happens when you love someone: they’re brave when you can’t be! I can be brave – for you, for both of us!

It’s funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It’s like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

The world continues to spin even when we want it to stop, I thought. Especially then.

It took us fifteen years to find each other, but we still did! And sometimes, family hurts each other. But after that’s done you bandage each other up, and you move on. Together. You’ve got us now, like it or not, and we’ve got you.

The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. She missed being little, when they were the all-knowing gods of her world, but at the same time, seeing them as human made it easier to see herself that way, too.

Some people leave, yeah, and it sucks. But some people don’t leave, and they never will. And sometimes people are there, but you just can’t see them. But they’re still there.

It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.

She didn’t realize it at the time, but Grace liked him just because he liked her, and that wasn’t a strong enough tree to hang on to when the storm came.