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Robin Wasserman Quotes

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels Picture Quote #1

In dreams you can become everything you’re not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite Picture Quote #1

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don’t think I’m alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things Picture Quote #1

It’s significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against Picture Quote #1

You don’t even realize you’re living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after Picture Quote #1

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized Picture Quote #1

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I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal Picture Quote #1

There are some moments you’d rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it’s mostly those moments in which it’s smarter-safer- to stay awake Picture Quote #1

Don’t go looking in dark places, because dark things live there Picture Quote #1

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time Picture Quote #1

But things don’t just fall apart. People break them Picture Quote #1

I should probably start with the blood Picture Quote #1

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Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean Picture Quote #1

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn’t about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to Picture Quote #1

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath Picture Quote #1

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why Picture Quote #1

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn’t exist, all at the same time Picture Quote #1

I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted Picture Quote #1

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You don’t even realize you’re living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after Picture Quote #1

In dreams you can become everything you’re not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite Picture Quote #1

Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last? Picture Quote #1

Nor did I need anyone’s pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on Picture Quote #1

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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) In dreams you can become everything you’re not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don’t think I’m alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) It’s significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) You don’t even realize you’re living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized. (Robin Wasserman Quotes) I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal (Robin Wasserman Quotes) There are some moments you’d rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it’s mostly those moments in which it’s smarter-safer- to stay awake (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Don’t go looking in dark places, because dark things live there (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time (Robin Wasserman Quotes) But things don’t just fall apart. People break them (Robin Wasserman Quotes) I should probably start with the blood (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean (Robin Wasserman Quotes) I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn’t about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to (Robin Wasserman Quotes) For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath (Robin Wasserman Quotes) They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn’t exist, all at the same time (Robin Wasserman Quotes) I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted (Robin Wasserman Quotes) You don’t even realize you’re living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after (Robin Wasserman Quotes) In dreams you can become everything you’re not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last? (Robin Wasserman Quotes) Nor did I need anyone’s pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on (Robin Wasserman Quotes)