85 Quotes by Robin Wasserman

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

Don’t go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

But things don’t just fall apart. People break them.

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.

I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book – at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

I used to be an obsessive outliner – figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

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.

See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all gawky limbs and Wonderbra cleavage, chewed nails picking at eruptive zits, lips nibbling and eyes scrunching in a doomed attempt not to cry. Girls with plaid skirts tugged unfathomably high above the knee, girls seizing the motion of the bus to throw themselves bodily into their objects of affection.

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