Robyn Schneider Quotes & Sayings

You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.'
'Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally. — Robyn Schneider

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened. — Robyn Schneider

But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either — Robyn Schneider

Sillage, I thought. The lingering impression of a kiss having ended. — Robyn Schneider

Oh come on,'Pheobe continued. 'You're asking for it. Pale skin, black clothes, no lunch and that whole brooding thing? It's hilarious. You should get body glitter and go after an unsuspecting freshman.'
'You should!' Cassidy agreed. 'Tell her you're a dangerous monster. And mention how good her blood smells.'
'Wrong time of the month on that one, and I'm getting slapped,' I muttered, and everyone laughed. — Robyn Schneider

The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle. — Robyn Schneider

She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself. — Robyn Schneider

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered.
"Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked. — Robyn Schneider

By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself. — Robyn Schneider

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me. — Robyn Schneider

We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference. — Robyn Schneider

Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse. — Robyn Schneider

Let me guess," Cassidy said, "because someone else picked it out and put it up in a room meant to encapsulate who you are, even though you have no interest in boats." "If I say yes, do I get to kiss you? — Robyn Schneider

You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no one gets the joke. — Robyn Schneider

It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that. — Robyn Schneider

Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate. — Robyn Schneider

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable. — Robyn Schneider

This is so humiliating," I muttered as Cassidy wiggled out of her bra. "Well, it brings new meaning to the phrase 'booby trap,'" she teased, and we both laughed, a situation made infinitely more interesting due to the fact that she was topless. — Robyn Schneider

No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away. — Robyn Schneider

But I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence ... — Robyn Schneider

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish. — Robyn Schneider

The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything. — Robyn Schneider

We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met. — Robyn Schneider

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power. — Robyn Schneider

Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. — Robyn Schneider

This was one of the last weekends before we'd be the seniors, and I was thinking about what that meant. About how these rituals of prom, the luau, and graduation that we'd watched for years were suddenly personal. — Robyn Schneider

A snowman in a town where it didn't snow, made by a boy who couldn't wait to leave, and given to a girl who had never belonged. — Robyn Schneider

But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I'd wanted to keep. — Robyn Schneider

I left Jill's party thinking that sometimes it isn't worth confirming what we already know about people we understand so well. Because what Charlotte had wanted that night wasn't me. It was some imaginary version of the boy she used to date but had never bothered to really think about as a person. And maybe the imaginary Ezra would have gone back to her and tried to forget the last five months. Maybe he would have convinced himself that he was happier for it, that neither of them were terrible people in the end, that it was possible to retreat into one's popularity and carelessness and never have to acknowledge the harm they'd caused to those around them, or the lies they believed to make their happiness possible. But — Robyn Schneider

But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for the rate of acceleration ... — Robyn Schneider

Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction. — Robyn Schneider

How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there'd be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages? — Robyn Schneider

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. — Robyn Schneider

It's strange how can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had. — Robyn Schneider

It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster. — Robyn Schneider

It had hurt to accept what was wrong with me, but it hurt even more to have hope. — Robyn Schneider

I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness. — Robyn Schneider

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence. — Robyn Schneider

Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year — Robyn Schneider

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship. — Robyn Schneider

Ezra, the girl you're chasing after doesn't exist. I'm not some bohemian adventurer who takes you on treasure hunts and sends you secret messages. I'm this sad, lonely mess who studies too much and pushes people away and hides in her haunted house. — Robyn Schneider

She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful. — Robyn Schneider

is how he printed up all of this fake money and threw it into a crowd. People thought it was real and tried to spend it in shops, and they were so angry when they found out it was fake. But now, those bills sell for a fortune on eBay. It's simultaneously real and not real, you know? Worthless as currency, but not as art . . . my brother asked for one of those bills for Christmas a few years ago, and my mom assumed he wanted it framed, and he said he'd just stick it in his wallet because it was one of the few works of art you could carry in your pocket. — Robyn Schneider

It's like . . . I'm paranoid about people borrowing my laptop because I'm convinced they'll find some secret document on there that would make the whole world think I'm a terrible person - something I don't even remember writing. And it doesn't matter that there's no document like that. I'm still terrified, you know? — Robyn Schneider

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane- — Robyn Schneider

Dude, I thought you were gonna stay on your side!" he complained. "That's so sweet," I called. "Who was the big spoon?" "Shut up, Faulkner," Austin grumbled. — Robyn Schneider

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present. — Robyn Schneider

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals. — Robyn Schneider

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will. — Robyn Schneider

Ezra, you're being ridiculous. I'm over it. That's what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven't you ever been friends with a girl before? — Robyn Schneider

Now hurry up. We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all the difference. — Robyn Schneider

But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. — Robyn Schneider

Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be. — Robyn Schneider

No, Charlotte, I'm not going to tell him," I said drily. "The hymen of your integrity remains intact. Your precious jewel of a reputation is un-besmirched. — Robyn Schneider

I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after. — Robyn Schneider

So anyway, I'm sorry I was a dick.'
'It's fine,' I said.
'No, shut up, I'm atoning. — Robyn Schneider

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse — Robyn Schneider

At Latham House, we were asked to believe in unlikely miracles. In second chances. We woke up each morning hoping that the odds had somehow swung in our favor.
But that's the thing about odds. Roll a die twice, and you expect two different results. Except it doesn't work that way. You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely.
Here's something I know because I'm a nerd: up until the middle of the twentieth century, dice were made out of cellulose nitrate. It's a material that remains stable for decades but, in a flash, can decompose. The chemical compound breaks down, releasing nitric acid. So every time you roll a die, there's a small chance that it won't give you a result at all, that instead it will cleave, crumble, and explode. — Robyn Schneider

So where are we going?"
"Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception. — Robyn Schneider

Achievement unlocked. — Robyn Schneider

No one wants to get hurt."
" Well, maybe not, but sometime's it's worth it. — Robyn Schneider

I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced "vitamin" the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants. — Robyn Schneider

One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet. — Robyn Schneider

No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday — Robyn Schneider

We're like a positively charged molecule, the rate we're attracting tragedy. — Robyn Schneider

I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark. — Robyn Schneider

You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that. — Robyn Schneider

She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me. — Robyn Schneider

But I know now that isn't true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning of The Great Gatsby is by a writer who doesn't exist. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to. — Robyn Schneider

That's not to say we were totally innocent of any public displays of affection; there was some hand-holding and the occasional hurried good-bye kiss on even days, when we had different sixth periods. — Robyn Schneider

I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day, I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. sbut it also means that the parts of me that knee and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe that is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency. — Robyn Schneider

I learned three things that night: 1) sharing a bed is't nearly as intimate as making out in a too-small back seat, 2) inexplicably, some bras unhook in the front, 3) Cassidy hadn't known I was Jewish. — Robyn Schneider

There. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me. — Robyn Schneider

No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday — Robyn Schneider

I'm so sorry. I always felt like there was something off about me, and now I know. I'm broken."
It wrecked me all over again to hear her say that.
"You're not broken."
"Then how come I can't be fixed?" she asked, shaking as she held back tears. "If I'm not broken, how come no one can fix me? — Robyn Schneider

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. — Robyn Schneider

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them. — Robyn Schneider

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding. — Robyn Schneider

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live. — Robyn Schneider

I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all. — Robyn Schneider

And that was when I saw what Cassidy had done to herself: the gold and red ribbing on her sweater-vest, the matching stripes on her tie, the gray uniform skirt, and the navy blazer draped over her arm ...
"Is that a Gryffindor tie?" I asked.
"And an official Harry Potter Merchandise sweater-vest," she confirmed smugly. — Robyn Schneider

I thought about the metal in my knee, replacing this piece of me that was missing, that no longer worked. And it wasn't my heart, I kept telling myself. It wasn't my heart. — Robyn Schneider

As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry. — Robyn Schneider

I had a massive bed at home, and I loved her dearly. She was my queen, and I was her loyal subject. — Robyn Schneider

There was this philosopher-slash-historian called Foucault, who wrote about how society is like this legendary prison called panopticon. In the panopticon, you might be underconstant observation, except you can never be sure whether someone is watching or not, so you wind up following the rules anyway."
"But how do you know who's a watcher and who's a prisoner?" ...
"That's the point. Even the watchers are prisoners. — Robyn Schneider

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose. — Robyn Schneider

I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy. — Robyn Schneider

She didn't add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine. — Robyn Schneider

Well, Mr. Illiterate Jock, let me enlighten you. There was this philosopher-slash-historian called Foucault, who wrote about how society is like this legendary prison called the panopticon. In the panopticon, you might be under constant observation, except you can never be sure whether someone is watching or not, so you wind up following the rules anyway."
"But how do you know who's a watcher and who's a prisoner?" I asked, pulling into the empty parking lot.
"That's the point. Even the watchers are prisoners. Come on, let's go on the swings. — Robyn Schneider

Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease. — Robyn Schneider

I shook my head. "No, I mean Animal Farm. You know: 'Some animals are more equal than other animals. — Robyn Schneider

I was listening to this playlist I'd made for her, headphones clamped over my ears. It was the story of us in music, except it wasn't finished yet. I had this plan that I'd add a new song every month, so that the playlist would keep going as long as we did. It was sort of an electronic version of adopting a tree, which I'd done in the Carbon Footprint Awareness Club, but only because it had looked good, not because I'd actually wanted to. Keeping a playlist alive sounded much more me. — Robyn Schneider

Ain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away. — Robyn Schneider

I have a theory that life is gathering the raw materials, and when we die, we get to make patterns out of our lives and relive them in whatever order we want. That way I can spend forever repeating the days when I was really happy, and never have to experience any of the sad days. So that's how you live a really great life. You make sure you have enough good days that you want to go back to. — Robyn Schneider

There was no half-assing a descent into hell. — Robyn Schneider

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat. — Robyn Schneider

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed. — Robyn Schneider

So I went to sleep thinking of her, of the curve of her back in a light cotton dress, of her hair twisted up into its crown of braids, of her, leaping from the zenith of the plastic swing set and clearing the sandbox, turning a neat lap around the whole of Eastwood, California, while I stood there, trapped in the dreariness of it all, numbly watching. — Robyn Schneider

I don't know which is worse," Cassidy mused, "when people laugh at things that aren't funny, or when they don't laugh at things that are. — Robyn Schneider

I reached for the switch on my desk lamp and flashed HELLO.
The lights switched off in Cassidy's bedroom, and her flashlight flicked on.
SORRY.
"She's sorry," I told Cooper, because he didn't understand Morse code.
He lifted his head as if to say But you already knew that, old sport.
Her flashlight flickered again.
FORGIVE ME.
This time, I didn't hesitate.
ALWAYS, I replied. — Robyn Schneider