29 Quotes by Robin Black

Non eravamo una di quelle famiglie in cui ci si scambiano baci

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.

It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.

I spent so much time thinking about regret. Regret and its accompanying conviction that there is a perfect, placid life, one's own alternate existence, pristine and simple, existing in a neighboring reality in which certain turns in the road were never set upon. And it isn't true. Any of it. I knew that. I had learned it. But it is an irresistible fantasy, if only because it implies we have some control over our fates.

La vita. Comincia e ricomincia, un'infinità di volte. Un inizio dopo l'altro, finchè non arriva la fine. A volte lo sappiamo, a volte no, ma la vita ricomicia in ogni istante

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

Mentre mi abbandonavo al sonno, la mia mente si riempì di frasi simili, di sciocchezze, arrendendosi alla natura insensata della vita

... all of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with a lightness that doesn't allow for anything as potentially heavy as an acknowledged fresh start.