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Robin Benway

Emmy & Oliver

  • dirhas quoted3 years ago
    But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things.
  • dirhas quoted3 years ago
    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.
  • dirhas quoted3 years ago
    “Wanting someone isn’t the same as loving them, though,” he said. “You know? It doesn’t mean the same thing.”
  • dirhas quoted3 years ago
    I know that. But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things.
  • Suwashas quoted4 years ago
    “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.”
  • Suwashas quoted4 years ago
    The world continues to spin even when we want it to stop
  • Suwashas quoted4 years ago
    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.
  • Suwashas quoted4 years ago
    Absence makes the heart grow fonder
  • Suwashas quoted4 years ago
    For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)

    it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

    —E. E. Cummings
  • .has quoted6 years ago
    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.
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