Quotes from 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.

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.

I suppose she didn't think anyone was looking and had let her guard down, the way you did in an empty room. The way I did when I closed the blinds and stared up at the ceiling fan above my bed, equally fascinated and horrified by the thoughts racing through my brain.

We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.

as far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to "I'm sorry.

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

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.

But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don't make any?

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

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know?

Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.

Because the truth is always hard. Because being queer is hard, and coming out is hard, and it never stops being hard. The world keeps shoving into you. But you stand tall anyway. You take up space anyway.

Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

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

I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.

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

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

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

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.

Eastwood was distorted for me, a picturesque place meant to lull its residents into believing that behind our gates and beyond our curfew, nothing bad could ever happen with any sort of permanence. It was a place so fatally flawed that it refused to acknowledge that any such imperfection was possible.

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

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. And so I closed my eyes and tried.

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

Well, fresh air's supposedly good for us,' I said. 'Breathing: The miracle cure everyone's been looking for.