26 Quotes by Robin Talley

It could be our own private universe.

In that moment, it felt like we were the entire world. Just me and those gorgeous stars.

That was when I forgot how to breathe altogether.

Last year I told Lori I thought I might be bi. Ever since, whenever she saw me looking at another girl, she asked if I liked her. Lori didn't get that sometimes it was fun just to notice people without having to think about whether you liked them or not.

Girls like me smiled politely and always did the right thing. Girls like me definitely didn't sneak away at night to do things that would crush their fathers. And if they did, girls like me knew how to keep it to themselves.

My life was bigger than any one person.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.

I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

I felt lost.