Robin Oliveira

“What was it about the world that it could not face the reality it lived?”

— Robin Oliveira

“Life, he now knew, was a fleet sprint from birth to death, revealed at twilight to be astonishingly brief.”

— Robin Oliveira

“In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.”

— Robin Oliveira

“Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized…

— Robin Oliveira

“How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.”

— Robin Oliveira

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

— Robin Oliveira

“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the…

— Robin Oliveira

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

— Robin Oliveira

“Why is it that voices break hearts?”

— Robin Oliveira

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has…

— Robin Oliveira

Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you…

— Robin Oliveira