52 Quotes by Robin Roe

That’s another thing. Boys don’t smile a lot. I’m not sure if they’re unhappy or if they’re just pretending to be unhappy. But Adam always looks kind.

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?

There was nowhere to go that me and the pain didn’t follow.

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

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.

You don’t really know people when your back is turned.

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. Sometimes I try to see this, my mother and father as two newborns holding hands and ejected into this other world. There they are just beginning.

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.

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.