52 Quotes by Robin Roe

Because people heal a whole lot faster when they’re with someone who loves them.

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.

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.

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... 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.

I should be afraid, but I feel empty. I remember my father’s hands. My mother’s hands. What hands are meant to do.

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

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

I’m dizzy. I’m here. I’m alive.

Superheroes aren’t real, and even if they were, they come too late.