Robin Benway Quotes & Sayings

You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers. — Robin Benway

Well, what do I say?" I ran my thumb over my phone's screen. "Like, 'Good making out with your face last night? Let's do it again.'? — Robin Benway

Tonight sucked" my dad said and I started to laugh hearing him say that. "What?" He smiled at me. "Isn't that the slang you kids are using? The lingo? Do I sound hip?"
I just shook my head. "The only hip I hear is the sound of yours breaking. — Robin Benway

You deserve more than just being our safety net — Robin Benway

I mean, i was into their music and everything way before I knew what they looked like, but they had their pictures in the CD insert and when Victoria and I got it, we were both like, "Why, hellooooo there." Plus, they were British. I'm a sucker for cute boys with guitars, as you may have noticed, but throw in a London accent and I'll happily sell my soul without a second thought. — Robin Benway

It was time for the mirror pep talk.
"Okay, Maggie," I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet.
"You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won't, though, because that would be cannibalistic and
wrong. — Robin Benway

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?"
"I'd rather swim in battery acid. — Robin Benway

So do I kill myself now, or do I wait and do it in front of Evan so he feels really, really, really bad? — Robin Benway

My hair was probably a disaster and my shirt was still damp, but I didn't care. It was funny, I never cared about those things with Oliver. I didn't worry about how I looked. All that mattered was how I felt. — Robin Benway

And oh my God, who brought that goddamn guitar? I want to kill them. Do you know how you can tell who the douche bag is at the party? It's the guy who starts playing the acoustic guitar. — Robin Benway

I nodded. I've been there. I obsess over mixes all the time. If there's one bad song on there, it kills the whole thing. — Robin Benway

What about James?"
"James? James, the guy I work with? James who takes ice cream scooping more seriously than anyone should? James who almost had a nervous breakdown when the chocolate and rainbow sprinkles accidentally got mixed together? That James?"
"He has a good work ethic. And he's cute."
"Hello, I'm not thirty. I don't want a good work ethic yet. I just want someone who can form complete sentences. — Robin Benway

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

Oh God, I heart him so much. — Robin Benway

Wanting someone isn't the same as loving them, though," he said. "You know? It doesn't mean the same thing. — Robin Benway

The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities. — Robin Benway

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. — Robin Benway

I know, but I hate him for kissing you. — Robin Benway

Oh,you love it," I said. "Do you think you love Ames, Roux?"
"I don't think it," she replied as her eyes fluttered shut. "I know it."
"I guess it is that easy." I said to Jesse. "You just know. There's not a lot of explanation. — Robin Benway

-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?"
-"If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?"
-"Okay, the second-best thing. — Robin Benway

I guess even when you can see everything, some things will always be a surprise. — Robin Benway

Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor! — Robin Benway

I'm forever hopeful," he said. "That's what friends do. They hope. They have faith in each other."

"Well, I have faith that she'll forget," I said, hiking my backpack up onto my shoulders. "You have to be a realist with Caro."

"I'm a hopeful realist," Drew said. "I'm a healist! Like those guys on TV late at night that cure people of cancer." He grinned down at me. — Robin Benway

Cherubs are so creepy, don't you think? Like, why are naked babies shooting poisonous arrows at innocent people a symbol of love? Why aren't they a symbol of toddler anarchy instead?" "Roux," I started to say, but then I paused, thinking about her comment. "That is an excellent point," I admitted. "I blame Hallmark," she said. "Damn them and their anarchist baby uprising. — Robin Benway

Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor."
"Harry Potter nerd."
"Whatever. Take the damn phone. — Robin Benway

I like to know a little about a lot. I find that it keeps life interesting. — Robin Benway

Oh my God," I gasped. "They think I'm like those girls! They think I run around and crash my car and forget to wear underwear. — Robin Benway

Can you pass me the slutty one, please?" I handed her the bottle of bright-red nail polish. "I think it's actually called Crimson Cabaret," I said. "Don't be a slut-shamer. — Robin Benway

Could you please stop dripping your sarcasm all over my car's interior? — Robin Benway

Wanna go study about incestuous royal families and bloody murders?' she asked him. 'Or do you wanna study European history instead? — Robin Benway

The tears finally got the best of him and he pressed his palms to his eyes as his shoulders started to shake. He cried silently, in so much pain that there was no sound to equal it — Robin Benway

That would make a fantastic college entrance essay. 'I Killed My Boyfriend and Still Managed to Maintain a 4.2 GPA and the Lead in the Spring Musical. — Robin Benway

Shut. Up," June squealed. "You have a date with that guy?" She giggled and covered her mouth. "Shut up, shut up, shut up! Tell me everything."
"I can't do both," I pointed out. — Robin Benway

It's OK to not be OK — Robin Benway

I told you, I just think we should slow down. I mean, we haven't even had a real date yet and I
- "
"Ohhhh." Jesse nodded to himself. "That's what this is. I get it."
"What?"
"First date. Girls like dates. I'm such an idiot, I should have thought of that."
This was backfiring spectacularly. — Robin Benway

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. — Robin Benway

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama. — Robin Benway

We don't even have a goldfish." "You've got to think toward the future." My dad smiled at me. "Maybe one day you'll move out and your mom and I will get a golden retriever to replace you. — Robin Benway

This isn't television! This isn't a movie! Giles and Buffy aren't gonna appear and show us how to deal with our wonderful new powers! Some fricking owl isn't gonna come sailing in through your window from Hogwarts! There's no Dumbledore! The Cullens aren't gonna show up and invite you to live with them in Forks! There's nothing! This isn't make believe! This is it! It's us and only us. — Robin Benway

Something inside me burned bright when he said that. A hell of a lot of people had seen me last night, but only one person had noticed the tiny details. Only one person has been close enough to see what really mattered. And that person was still standing with me now. — Robin Benway

You have to turn it up so that your chest shakes and the drums get in between your ribs like a heartbeat and the bass goes up your spine and fizzles your brain and all you can do is dance or spin in a circle or just scream along because you know that however this music makes you feel, it's exactly right. — Robin Benway

Well, that's growing up, isn't it?" my dad said. "You don't always have to know. And things aren't always fair. You just have to keep moving forward. A step in one direction. — Robin Benway

Like, what's wrong with being like other girls? — Robin Benway

Hey, it's-!"
"Who? Oh. Oh."
"Shut up."
"I haven't said anything yet!"
"Don't."
"How can I shut up if I haven't said anything?"
"I know you. You've got a monologue coming up. — Robin Benway

Fuck your royalties and die. — Robin Benway

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

Sometimes there just aren't enough words to fill the crack in your heart. — Robin Benway

This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top — Robin Benway

Hello. Audrey's phone. She's currently suiting up for a soul-deadening hourly job that provides no benefits, how may I help you? — Robin Benway

What's the point of crying if you can't even see the tears? — Robin Benway

WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING YOUR PHONE?!? OH MY GOD, DID YOU SEE THE ARTICLE? I AM FREAKING OUT, WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING YOUR PHONE?!? Please call me, I'm starting to act like Tizzy around here. It's getting ugly. Oh, hi, Mr. and Mrs. Cuttler, in case you get this first. Everything's fine, I'm just trying to get ahold of Audrey. Okay, bye. AUDREY, CALL ME BEFORE I HAVE TO RESORT TO SKYWRITING — Robin Benway

Hey," Jesse said. "You guys get any sleep?"
Roux just held up her massive coffee cup. "Does this answer your question? — Robin Benway

Hey," he said, stopping in front of me. "As much fun as it is watching you elbow small children
out of your way while clinging to a makeshift wall ... "
"That kid was hogging all the space!" I huffed. "He had it coming! — Robin Benway

I just hugged him and didn't say anything. There wasn't anything to say. Sometimes there just aren't enough words to fill the cracks in your heart. — Robin Benway

But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things. — Robin Benway

Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing. — Robin Benway

I'm a ball of rage right now, James. Sitting isn't gonna do much. — Robin Benway

That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives. — Robin Benway

If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine. — Robin Benway

I liked James and James liked me and we both knew it and if you think about it, that's like a miracle. A real miracle. Everyone says that babies are miracles, and don't get me wrong, I love cute little pudgy babies, but if you think about it, me having a baby right now would not be a miracle. At all. But finding someone that gets me? That's the real work. That's where the miracles are. — Robin Benway

Henry narrowed his eyes at me. "You going somewhere?"
"Lacrosse field trip," I said. "I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets. — Robin Benway

Sometimes love isn't something you say, it's something you do. — Robin Benway

I'm very nice. I'm nice to everyone who deserves my niceness. -Emmy — Robin Benway

I know this is like the longest story ever, but I really just wanted you to know the other side. (And besides, Bendomolena's been on my lap this whole time and once Bendomolena decides to sit on you,get comfortable, because you're not going anywhere for awhile.) Anyway, James is coming over in fifteen minutes so we can go with Victoria and Jonah to see New Nostalgia, and I still have to figure out what I'm wearing.
Like the Beatles said, "O-bla-di, o-bla-da, life goes on."
And it does.
Rock on. — Robin Benway

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. — Robin Benway

And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that — Robin Benway

So, Harold. Friend, pal, chum." Roux folded her hands on top of the desk. "Are you going to
buzz us in or not?"
"Go on up, miss," Harold said, waving us through the lobby and toward the elevators.
"Harold, you're a gem. A pristine gem honed over years of trial and fire."
"That's how I would describe my job, too," Harold replied. — Robin Benway

But that was last year," I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days before
Halloween. "I'm serious, you know how people are. They forget about things."
"Oh, really?" Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. "Hey, Julia, what's up?
How are things?"
"Slut," Julia responded, and kept walking.
Roux just looked back at me knowingly. "You were saying? — Robin Benway

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood. — Robin Benway

...I turned the music back on and reached to turn off my lamp, trying not to think about anything for a few minutes. That's always impossible, though. It's easier to stop breathing than it is to stop thinking. — Robin Benway

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

You know how sometimes you realize you're doing or saying the wrong thing, but you just can't
stop yourself? You can literally hear the words coming out of your mouth and you just want to shove
them back in because the real you, the good you, would never want to be this way, but you just keep
going? — Robin Benway

Did you just say 'frolic'?"
"Is it not a word?"
"Who the hell says 'frolic'?"
"I say frolic. And more people should."
"They should say frolic or actually frolic."
"Both. — Robin Benway

I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far. — Robin Benway